Did Sir Isaac Newton invent social media or was it a group of medieval harness-polishers?
You can view the Isaac Newton archive online at the Cambridge Digital Library.
Here Isaac Newton theorised, Darwin pondered, Crick and Watson discovered DNA and Stephen Hawking hypothesised.
Yet, as Isaac Newton once noted, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Its members have included Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Steven Hawking.
Isaac Newton showed how a universal force, gravity, applied to all objects in all parts of the universe.
"Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687) was the last major work in England to be published in Latin, " says Ostler.
Despite Isaac Newton, when it comes to tax rates, every action may not have an equal and opposite reaction.
Isaac Newton really spent a great chunk of his life as a detective.
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The fourteenth-century rebel leader is featured in a Sunday Times poll and is ranked seventh above Sir Isaac Newton and Abraham Lincoln.
Then Asad moved on to study the model that Isaac Newton designed.
"Once I'm on the ice, it's just me and Isaac Newton, " says Kaku, a professor at the City University of New York.
London provided him with one of its best sites for his statue of Isaac Newton: the forecourt of the new British Library.
Isaac Newton wrote more about the Bible than he wrote about physics.
Taking a page from the physics of Isaac Newton, Marx argued that similar laws of cause and effect determine the course of history.
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It was designed by Sir Isaac Newton as Master of the Mint, managed by the Bank of England, and rhapsodized about by Adam Smith.
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Kepler is famous for discovering the three laws of planetary motion, laws which Isaac Newton later re-derived with his universal theory of gravitation.
Inside, they were stunned to find rooms crammed with thousands of pilfered documents, including some signed by Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton and Charles Dickens.
If Isaac Newton saw farther by standing on the shoulders of giants, then those giants themselves had been standing on the shoulders of others.
The simplest is an extension of an idea that Isaac Newton himself had, which uses approximations to the non-linear equations to find their solutions.
It seems that Sir Isaac Newton got it right with his First Law of Motion: Bodies at rest tend to stay at rest.
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But what about Sir Isaac Newton, whom some contend was autistic?
Even Sir Isaac Newton had his doubts about when such a goal might be achieved, given the effects of rough seas on such finely tuned machines.
One of the most heated controversies in the early 18th century was between two of the brightest minds of the age, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
It is that as a mathematician he discovered - alone and unaided - the binomial theory usually attributed to a famous English scholar called Isaac Newton.
As Isaac Newton posited, bad guys have to set the explosions in motion, so this time there's a load of baloney about an Asian slave-smuggling ring.
We have a cultural picture in our head of Isaac Newton as an upstanding British gentlemen who discovered gravity by having an apple fall on his head.
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Listening to Ofer Lahav talk about dark energy I'm struck that this is what it must have been like to hear Isaac Newton describe gravity in the 1680s.
The Apple-1 computer came with a typed note from Jobs as well as a box stamped with the company's original logo -- an apple falling on Sir Isaac Newton.
The average man in 1820 lived only a bit better than his forebears had in 1500, despite the accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson.
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