Comments on: The “truth” about Isaac Newton

By: Sailesh Akkaraju

Sailesh Akkaraju — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:44:43 +0000

I think too much effort has been spent to decode the sentiment behind Newton’s statement. This statement itself is very significant in the wider context of all Science. In this particular context itself, Newton acknowledged the role of Des Cartes and Hooke. These were three Giants, perhaps with some human failings, but Giants nonetheless. Let there not be more read into it then that.

By: F. Creighton

F. Creighton — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:11:04 +0000

A correction re: Newton’s height. He did not possess “impressive height.” His contemporaries described him as being of “medium height” for a man in the 1600′s.
Milo Keynes, M.D., the nephew of the famed economist John Maynard Keynes, was once in possession of the bulk of Newton’s papers. Dr. Keynes made an exhaustive study of the iconography of Newton, including measuring Newton’s walking sticks, and concluded that Newton, ” was short of stature at five feet six inches tall (the same as Beethoven and Napoleon), and the statue of him in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge gives him a small head, which Roubiliac had sculpted using his death mask for size. ” See, inter alia,
http://www.galtoninstitute.org.uk/Newsletters/GINL0103/birth_weight.htm

By: john stephens

john stephens — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:57:39 +0000

i , so firmly disagree; to say that ( in my opinion ) one of the greatest thinkers of our time could have been so petty, that he would belittle even his long time rival, after his ( hookes ) death is just not so, i think he was giving his long time rival his praise after his passing that he regarded him as a giant in the scientific community.