Did Sir Isaac Newton invent social media or was it a group of medieval harness-polishers?
The fourteenth-century rebel leader is featured in a Sunday Times poll and is ranked seventh above Sir Isaac Newton and Abraham Lincoln.
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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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.
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.
Rare papers belonging to the 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton could go on public display for the first time, if Cambridge University, where Newton once lectured, wins its campaign to buy them.
Scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton considered the quest to create the stuff in a laboratory to be much more important than figuring out gravity and other principles that underpin our modern-day understanding of physics.
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Surrounding his desk are pictures not of his family but of Thomas Edison, Neil Armstrong and Sir Isaac Newton--inspiration for a 38-year-old public company that claims to be spearheading one of history's biggest revolutions in glass.
It appears that gravity, the same pesky force of nature that caused the edible variety of an apple to fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head, is causing one of Wall Street's tech darlings to fall as well.
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