Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton!
Posted on 4 January 2010 | Comments Off
Though he’s known to schoolchildren to world over as the recipient of a nasty bump on the head from a falling apple – the true origin of Newton’s conceptualization of gravity comes from a little higher in the sky. So, in honor of Sir Newton’s birthday, here’s a short clip from the BBC explaining how we came to know why we don’t just fall right off the Earth:
Source: Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton! | BEYONDbones.
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
In Museum Boerhaave in Leiden there is through september 2010 a big exhibtion about Newton: NewtonMania.
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