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The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« on: February 19, 2021, 03:06:53 pm »
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The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton has founded not only classical mechanics but also true quantitative science – physics rooted in advanced mathematics – in his seminal three-volume 1687 Principia (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica). The world-changing importance of this text is self-evident to everyone who isn't brain-dead.

Now, this story starts with a simple question: How many copies of the opus' first edition were there? 189 were known so far (and one was auctioned for $3.7 million in 2016, a record price for a science book). This number was clearly a lower bound and after some census, "sleuths in Europe" found 198 more, as the article makes clear, including new copies in Prague. I am almost certain that there were many thousands and the "number of copies we still possess" and the "number of copies that have existed" are two wildly different numbers. Why should almost all copies be preserved for almost 350 years?



But look how The New York Times is spinning this innocent story about the unimportant question about the number of copies:

    Newton’s 'Principia' Had a Surprisingly Wide Audience, Historians Find (a backup)

OK, so the readers are told that it was "surprising" that the Principia had a wide audience. At many places, the article suggests that the audience should be small because it was a "daunting" text etc. What? Are you serious? This propaganda is so incredibly outrageous.

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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2021, 03:07:37 pm »
If they don't like Newton just call Nazi Pelosi and have him impeached! :silly:
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2021, 03:56:27 pm »
I have a copy of the Principia.   It's the most influential book of science in history.

Without the science that evolved from Newton's genius, the socialists of Germany could never have industrialized genocide.
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2021, 06:22:28 pm »
 *****rollingeyes***** Pointing out that a challenging treatise on a somewhat arcane topic had a surprisingly wide audience is an "attack"? *****rollingeyes***** Seriously? *****rollingeyes*****
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2021, 06:46:25 pm »
Credit and respect to Newton, yet he hardly equaled the Ancient Greeks who gave Mankind:
* the Water Mill,
* the Odometer,
* the Alarm Clock,
* Cartography,
* Geometry,
* Medicine.
Sourced from the Britannica.
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2021, 09:47:32 pm »
Quote from: Absalom on February 19, 2021, 06:46:25 pm
Credit and respect to Newton, yet he hardly equaled the Ancient Greeks who gave Mankind:
* the Water Mill,
* the Odometer,
* the Alarm Clock,
* Cartography,
* Geometry,
* Medicine.
Sourced from the Britannica.

Yah.

The Greeks gave us "medicine"...The Egyptians were trepanning skulls thousands of years earlier...and THEY gave us BEER!

But should we forgive the Greeks for inventing the alarm clock?   

And the odometer is going to be used to raise our taxes.   Good job, Archimedes or Hero...
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2021, 11:55:50 pm »
Quote from: Absalom on February 19, 2021, 06:46:25 pm
Credit and respect to Newton, yet he hardly equaled the Ancient Greeks who gave Mankind:
* the Water Mill,
* the Odometer,
* the Alarm Clock,
* Cartography,
* Geometry,
* Medicine.
Sourced from the Britannica.
Newton was one person.
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2021, 12:15:56 am »
Gravity is Racist.
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2021, 01:47:56 am »
Quote from: Sled Dog on February 19, 2021, 09:47:32 pm
Yah.
The Greeks gave us "medicine"...
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Attempt acquainting yourself w/the name Hippocrates!
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2021, 03:15:33 am »
Quote from: Absalom on February 20, 2021, 01:47:56 am
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Attempt acquainting yourself w/the name Hippocrates!

Right.

Nobody before him ever wanted someone else to help them with their health issues.

Hippocrates did some important things.    Most notably his Oath that doctors today pretty much ignore.

But Galen did more for medicine.

And the grave robbers of the 18th and 19th centuries did even more than those two combined.
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Re: The New York Times inkspillers attack Isaac Newton
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2021, 03:18:31 am »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on February 19, 2021, 11:55:50 pm
Newton was one person.

Newton was undoubtedly one of the greatest geniuses in recorded human history.   But he too stood on the shoulders of giants, notably Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler.   
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« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2021, 09:13:02 pm »
Quote from: Sled Dog on February 20, 2021, 03:18:31 am
Newton was undoubtedly one of the greatest geniuses in recorded human history.   But he too stood on the shoulders of giants, notably Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler.
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