5/31/2023 0 Comments Opticks by Isaac Newton![]() ![]() Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast. ![]() If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants. Quotes Plato is my friend - Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest friend is truth. 1.6 Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St.1.3 "Hypothesis explaining the Properties of Light" (1675).1.1 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687).Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing infinitesimal calculus. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. Sir Isaac Newton ( Janu– Maor in Old Style: Decem– March 20, 1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a " natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. ![]() I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ![]()
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