#Principia Mathematica

[mckinleygirl98]

best things that happen in the time travel comic:

Isaac Newton hates apples for the rest of his life and gets annoyed when people offer them to him

"EDWINNING!!!!!!! 😍 😘"

Leon Czolgoz sticks his head in a freezer

in reference to edwinning, Edwin Booth hooks up with a 90s blonde fashion designer when she was broke and then she got rich and he got banned from time travel bc she had his edgy gay theater kid gen Z daughter and they got married. edlosing

John Wilkes Booth and Billy the Kid shoot each other at the exact same time

Abe Lincoln and Queen Elizabeth I are literally BESTIES 4 life

Some freaky girl from the 50s undergoes some INSANE character development in the 70s and becomes mellow, then dies in childbirth causing David Herold to have a mental breakdown (he befriended her)

TONS of Herold shenanigans. Beatles haircuts. Chain smoking. Arson. Incredible character development where his moral values completely shift and he ditches Johnny Booth

Everyone loves Frank Zappa and they have numerous dance party sequences

Albert Einstein is evil (it's the driving detail)

Albert Einstein has a pet chicken

and other miscellaneous shenanigans

[samanaiirburtininkes]

2024.11.03 | 2/100 days of studying

Today the day started late and we planned to go back to Vilnius so I would not simply study. We returned later in the day so before that I managed to read some Hegel and went over some German vocab on Anki, began reading Gadamer.

During the ride I repeated some Latin but was feeling a bit sick so listened to The Eras Tour playlist til Vilnius.

After some rest we watched the second episode of 'Twin Peaks' and then I read some more Gadamer.

I am still very behind :(

I hope next week my Latin professor will send me notes on Newton's Principia translation

[whats-in-a-sentence]

That was a special problem which remained unsolved for a century after the "Principia Mathematica."

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[wisdomfish]

Newton poses a problem for Dawkins.

Newton is possibly the greatest scientist of all time, and was a strong believer in God. So how does Dawkins deal with Newton? He tries to neutralize Isaac Newton by claiming he was a fake, motivated by money. This is how he does it – the passage is in Dawkins' book The God Delusion. Dawkins starts with a quote from Bertrand Russell who said: "Intellectually eminent men disbelieve the Christian religion, but hide the fact, because they are afraid of losing their income." The next sentence is: "Newton was religious." The insinuation is that Newton was faking belief in God to get money. This is totally false.

If Newton was faking it, he really overdid it. He wrote to his friend Richard Bentley: "When I wrote my treatise [Principia Mathematica], I had an eye upon such principles as might work for the belief of a deity, and nothing can rejoice me more, than to find it useful for that purpose." He read the Bible every day; attacked and ridiculed atheists and wrote letters encouraging opponents of atheism. Newton wrote:

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things, and knows all that is or can be done. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent Being.

And this: "It is the perfection of God's works, that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion." Galileo said: "The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go." Galileo, Newton and Einstein all believed in God, therefore Dawkins' claim that science and religion are in conflict is nonsense.

~ John Marsh 

[ahb-writes]

"While in London, UK, Adam [Savage] meets up with Brady Haran at The Royal Society! Brady takes us down to the archives of this historic science academy where Library Manager Rupert Baker lets Adam flip through the first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica printed in 1687. We learn the storied history of the publication of this groundbreaking text and its significance to modern science. Plus, Adam gets to examine Sir Isaac Newton's actual death mask!"

[teachersource]

Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642. An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a “natural philosopher”), widely recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus.

[tenth-sentence]

All this stuff that seems so simple now is only simple because Isaac Newton explained it first in his book "Principia Mathematica," published in 1687.

"The Stars in their Courses" - Isaac Asimov

[cometchasr]

if you have a set of numbers with exactly one number in it and have another set of numbers with exactly one number in it then the set of numbers containing all the numbers in the first two sets has exactly 2 numbers

[mckinleygirl98]

Doodles instead of actually working on the comic

[slapstikcomedyentertainment]

Hilarious Histories - July 5

Newton especially struggled with the problem of counterfeit currency...

On July 5, 1687, a man slightly more brilliant than myself, Sir Isaac Newton, published the “Principia Mathematica.” Two hundred fifty years later to the day, Spam was introduced to a grateful world. Coincidence? I think not. The eminent scientist unveiled several wonders for humanity, which in deference to him share his name. These include Newton’s laws of motion, Newton’s law of universal…

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica had appeared in 1687, using the new tool of calculus that Newton himself developed to express his mechanical model of the heavens mathematically.*

*Unless, that is, the German thinker Gottfried Leibniz, who was working on similar mathematical methods in the 1670s, in fact developed calculus first and Newton just stole the credit. Most likely the two thinkers invented calculus independently, but mutual accusations of plagiarism eventually poisoned their relationship.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[rugessnome]

nightblogging concept: Sidious and Tyranus do "Defying Gravity" but accidentally end up with the lyrics to "Defining Gravity" instead

therefore somebody gets passive aggressively wished "I hope you never wind up manic and deny quantum mechanics!"

[nothoward]

Because.

- Newton's Fourth Law

[firstofficerrose]

I have a friend studying Biology. This is complicated somewhat by her fluency in Latin.

Why would that complicate things? Well, bio uses a lot of terms that are essentially just Latin pronounced in an English accent. And that, kind friends and companions, is something she can no longer do.

So when she's doing vocabulary, she'll use the Latin "u" sound in words like "Latissimus" and put the emphasis where Latin would place it as opposed to where English does and no dipthongs and Latin double vowels and all the other rules of pronunciation, and it's just so. It's so funny. It's genuinely distressing any time you can't pronounce words correctly in a class discussion, but she just can't do it at all and it's really funny because of all the languages to be providing interference, Latin!

[millersix]

i miss translating latin i should get back to that <3

[mutter-official]

WHY IS THE BASTARD CHILD OF WHITEHEAD AND RUSSEL FOLLOWING ME