Posted on 06/06/2015 7:25:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
do you know of any good biographies of Newton?
It would be a long drive...like, start 2 days ahead. lol
I’ve read several in my life, don’t remember which ones... but here’s a good documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n3RWAIlzAI
Richard Westfall's Never At Rest seems to be the definitive version. I have the abridged Canto version entitled The Life of Isaac Newton, which has served me well, although I have consulted the original for its discussion of some mathematical details.
I also have James Gleick's ISAAC NEWTON, which is comparatively a breezy read, but not without merit, and I would certainly recommend it as a starting point.
Have you read up on Tesla too? He was unbelievable.
I wish he was alive today to see what he made happen- and just imagine what he could do with modern computers at his disposal.
Both force and acceleration are vector quantities. Mass is not. So any force (and, correspondingly, any acceleration) may be expressed as any number of vectors, summed.
To some degree. I guess it was the Wikipedia biography, maybe, which was more than I had known about him. The thing is that Tesla was essentially a "crank", i.e. outside the mainstream of scientific thought. Of course, he enjoys substantial recognition today ( speaking abstractly ) for his achievements and contributions, but he was nevertheless out of the mainstream, as he did not accept many established premises, Einsteinian special and general relativity, for example. So for this reason, he is not comparable to Newton.
Tesla was not comparable to Newton??? YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
yes but worth it to finally meet someone krunky enough
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