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Friday (Isaac) Newton Blogging: Monday Cosmology Edition. — 2 comments

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Update:  See correction below.** (Cross-posted at Cosmic Variance.) Let me just admit up front that … more »

Tags: astronomy, Isaac Newton, Cosmology, good public communication of science, History of Science, Big Ideas, Physics, John Locke, Edmond Halley

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging (Monday edition): Isaac solves the subprime mess. — 1 comment

Tom wrote 3 months ago: We are in a mess. How bad is it? I don’t know — but when the Fed et al. race to make su … more »

Tags: Who thought that was a good idea?, History, Isaac Newton, quis custodiet ipsos custodes, Scientific Revolution, History of Science, Economic follies, newton, mortgage crisis

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: "On the Shoulders of Giants" or, Revenge is a Dish Best Eaten Cold Edition. — 3 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: On March 3, 1703, a very short giant died, and a greater one of average height may well have laughed … more »

Tags: unsportmanlike conduct, astronomy, History, Isaac Newton, Scientific Revolution, History of Science, professoriat follies, Hooke, newton

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: February 8. Mark the day ... — 2 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: …because if modern science has a birthday, this could be it. (Think of February 8 as the anal … more »

Tags: History of Science, Isaac Newton, Physics, History, Optics, Science, Telescopes

Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging (Thursday edition): "The Coffee House" meeting

Tom wrote 5 months ago: I don’t think I’ve got this precise to the day, but I can’t let the month pass wit … more »

Tags: astronomy, History, Isaac Newton, Science Fiction, History of Science, Gravity, newton, Neal Stephenson, Royal Society

Friday (Isaac) Newton Blogging: A tree of knowledge?

Tom wrote 6 months ago: Late in life Isaac Newton told a story about something that happened during the plague year of 1666 … more »