Comments on: The “truth” about Isaac Newton http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: George DeRise http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/comment-page-1/#comment-72471 George DeRise Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:35:41 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/#comment-72471 It is well known that Robert Hooke had a dibilitating disease of the spine causing him to be hunchbacked. Also if I recall, Newton did not want to give Hooke any credit for the theory of gravitation. It is well known that Robert Hooke had a dibilitating disease of the spine causing him to be hunchbacked. Also if I recall, Newton did not want to give Hooke any credit for the theory of gravitation.

]]> By: Monte http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/comment-page-1/#comment-65786 Monte Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:00:53 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/#comment-65786 To remove the `probable' insult to Hookes, I would suggest citing the true source of "standing on giants" from below: John of Salisbury. 1159. The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books. Translation by Daniel McGarry [2009]. Publicity and popularity is not innovation. Isaac Newton was the politician of innovation, not a innovator. Certainly he made important ideas popular through his social networks, but did he create any new science or math? What exactly did Newton do that was a contribution? Argue with a hunchback? Get Knighted? Rewrite Galileo's geometric proofs in algebraic form using fluxions? (Dialogue on the Two Systems) To remove the `probable’ insult to Hookes, I would suggest citing the true source of “standing on giants” from below:

John of Salisbury. 1159. The Metalogicon: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the
Trivium. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books. Translation by Daniel McGarry [2009].

Publicity and popularity is not innovation. Isaac Newton was the politician of innovation, not a innovator. Certainly he made important ideas popular through his social networks, but did he create any new science or math?

What exactly did Newton do that was a contribution? Argue with a hunchback? Get Knighted? Rewrite Galileo’s geometric proofs in algebraic form using fluxions? (Dialogue on the Two Systems)

]]> By: Sailesh Akkaraju http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/comment-page-1/#comment-52575 Sailesh Akkaraju Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:44:43 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/#comment-52575 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. 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 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/comment-page-1/#comment-38032 F. Creighton Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:11:04 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/#comment-38032 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 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 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/comment-page-1/#comment-14743 john stephens Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:57:39 +0000 http://anthonydwilliams.com/2008/01/21/the-truth-about-isaac-newton/#comment-14743 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. 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.

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