Showing posts with label Sir Isaac Newton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sir Isaac Newton. Show all posts
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Merry Newtonmas 2022

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The first recorded Newtonmas is credited to the Newton Kai at Tokyo University, circa 1891. Physics students had been celebrating with a pa...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Merry Newtonmas 2021

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was light.   If your neighborhood is like ours, th...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Merry Newtonmas 2019

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Born on December 25 (OS), 1642, Sir Issac Newton was more than the most brilliant man of his time. He was the first modern scientist. He di...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Reminders of Newtonmas Past

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Newtonmas 2011 https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2011/12/merry-newtonmas.html Today, we ignore his religious writings, the extent of ...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Merry Newtonmas 2017

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Celebrating Newtonmas off and on since 1984, this year I honored Sir Isaac by buying myself one of the commemorative 50p coins from the Brit...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Newton and Leibniz

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No one got the joke. The office  has a lot of nerds. Our boss earned his master's in anthropology.  My wife said, "The human brain ...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Newtonmas 2016: Great Man or Social Forces?

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December 25 is the traditional birthday of Sir Isaac Newton(1).   So, some fans and followers of physics, and perhaps some professionals, c...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

The First Newtonmas

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We commonly call the Nativity scene “the first Christmas” though it was not. The first Christ Mass could not have been celebrated before th...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Merry Newtonmas!

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"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, 'Let Newton be' and all was light." Alexander Pope Go...