Re: Nova's Newton

Virgil wrote:
In article <g9l3u1$usl$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gib Bogle <bogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

M Rath wrote:
The Nova program on public TV often makes points that reach for sensationalism and then repeats the points several times over.

On Newton they had a program about his dark side and the fact that he was an alchemist. And of course an alchemist is someone working with bizarre aspects of chemistry or someone with bizarre goals of the result of the chemistry.

But let's take alchemists at the time of Newton as people who were looking for accidental discoveries and let's take them as people working with chemistry just outside of the current accademic direction. So here we have alchemists simply as people in conflict with an accademic's personnel management system. And yeah they worked secretly. Now again...Nova called this Newton's dark side...

But consider Newton's calculus as the nature of the person. Newton kept his calculus secret and he kept it secret either because it was outside of the current accademic direction or because he just wanted to use it for personal advantage of being a talented professor and being able to calculate things without anyone realizing how he could be so talented.

In other words calculus was Newton's cheat ***...and his secret system.

And at this point we have calculus as a book of shortcuts. (Well can anything calculated with calculus also be calculated with trig or with systems of linear equations ?)

Of course Newton's calculus was a math...I presume...for Galileo's physics.

Then later in life Newton demonstrated a math shortcut to an astronomer...that astronomer pounded the pavement for a consideration and study of Newtons's calculus. And then Newton wrote his famous book and scientific paper.

Now I'm not an expert on Newton I'm just suggesting a viewpoint that others might fill out further...


Newton wrote far more on his bizarre religious ideas than he did on science and maths. He believed that he was specially equipped to find hidden messages in the bible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_religious_views
He was a religious nutter.

He was also a man of extraordinary talents whose scientific discoveries and mathematical inventions revolutionized the science of his day.

Really? I had no idea!
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