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  2. Standing on the shoulders of giants - Wikipedia

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    The quote is most often attributed to Sir Isaac Newton in a letter to his rival, Robert Hooke. Isaac Newton remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke written in 5 February 1675 and published in 1855: What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical ...

  3. Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton (/ ˈ nj uː t ən /; 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author. [5] Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. [ 6 ]

  4. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727), author of the Principia, by Godfrey Kneller (1689). The Preface of the work states: [15]Rational Mechanics will be the sciences of motion resulting from any forces whatsoever, and of the forces required to produce any motion, accurately proposed and demonstrated ...

  5. List of Latin phrases (N) - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote, defining foundation of all modern sciences. Can be found in his Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge, 1978 edition [2] naturalia non sunt turpia: What is natural is not dirty

  6. An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture

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    Ebenezer Henderson The Great Mystery of Godliness Incontrovertible; or, Sir Isaac Newton and the Socinians foiled in the attempt to prove a corruption in the text, 1 Tim. III. 16, [theòs ephanerōthē en sarki]: containing a review of the charges brought against the passage; an examination of the various readings; and a confirmation of that in ...

  7. Religious views of Isaac Newton - Wikipedia

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    Newton was born into an Anglican family three months after the death of his father, a prosperous farmer also named Isaac Newton. When Newton was three, his mother married the rector of the neighbouring parish of North Witham and went to live with her new husband, the Reverend Barnabas Smith, leaving her son in the care of his maternal grandmother, Margery Ayscough. [9]

  8. Isaac Newton in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, theologian, alchemist and one of the most influential scientists in human history.His Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is considered to be one of the most influential books in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.

  9. Hypotheses non fingo - Wikipedia

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    In the history of physics, hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses") is a phrase used by Isaac Newton in the essay General Scholium, which was appended to the second edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1713.