![]() Isaac Newton - context of quote “Plato is my friend” - Medium image (500 x 250 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “Inherent force of matter is the power of resisting…” - Large image (800 x 400 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “Inherent force of matter is the power of resisting…” - Medium image (500 x 250 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “Impressed force is the action” - Large image (800 x 400 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “Impressed force is the action” - Medium image (500 x 250 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “Standing on the shoulders of giants” - Large image (800 x 400 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “Standing on the shoulders of giants” - Medium image (500 x 250 px). ![]() Isaac Newton - context of quote “In experimental philosophy” - Large image (800 x 400 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “In experimental philosophy” - Medium image (500 x 250 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “A change in motion” - Large image (800 x 400 px).Isaac Newton - context of quote “A change in motion” - Medium image (500 x 250 px).Isaac Newton - “Playing on the Seashore” illustrated quote - Large 800px.Isaac Newton - “Playing on the Seashore” illustrated quote - Medium 500px.Isaac Newton - Comments on his “Playing on the Seashore” Quote.Isaac Newton - biography from Famous Men of Science (1889).25 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Newton's birth.For in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematicks & Philosophy more then than at any time since. All this was in the two plague years of 1665-1666. And the same year I began to think of gravity extending to ye orb of the Moon & (having found out how to estimate the force with wch globe revolving within a sphere presses the surface of the sphere) from Keplers rule of the periodic times of the Planets being in sesquialterate proportion of their distances from the center of their Orbs, I deduced that the forces wch keep the Planets in their Orbs must reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about wch they revolve: & thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, & found them answer pretty nearly. ![]() ![]() The same year in May I found the method of Tangents of Gregory & Slusius, & in November had the direct method of fluxions & the next year in January had the Theory of Colours & in May following I had entrance into ye inverse method of fluxions. In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of any Bionomial into such a series. does it not appear from phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. What is there in places almost empty of Matter, and whence is it that the Sun and Planets gravitate towards one another, without dense Matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?. Later Philosophers banish the Consideration of such a Cause out of natural Philosophy, feigning Hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other Causes to Metaphysicks: Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions. And for rejecting such a Medium, we have the Authority of those the oldest and most celebrated Philosophers of Greece and Phoenicia, who made a Vacuum, and Atoms, and the Gravity of Atoms, the first Principles of their Philosophy tacitly attributing Gravity to some other Cause than dense Matter.
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