Las anécdotas más extrañas de Isaac Newton -Isaac Newton encaja perfectamente en el estereotipo de científico despistado: él mismo cuenta que, en una ocasión, entró en la cuadra de la granja donde vivía arrastrando por las riendas a un caballo. Sin advertir que el caballo hacía tiempo que se había zafado. Newton también se olvidaba a menudo de comer y hasta de dormir, al menos es lo que cuentan quienes le conocieron en sus tiempos universitarios. Y es que Newton a menudo quedaba abstraído por sus reflexiones. También se olvidaba a menudo de sus invitados cuando se ausentaba por algún motivo del salón: se dirigía a su laboratorio y no regresaba en horas. -Vestía de forma descuidada, e incluso sucio, porque a menudo olvidaba su higiene personal. No era raro verle sentado en cualquier camino de la universidad de Cambridge, trazando en el suelo enrevesadas figuras geométricas, mientras sus alumnos y compañeros le sorteaban, tratando de no estropear aquellos incomprensibles dibujos. -Newton también era serio y circunspecto.
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art | California Literary Review Antonio del Pollaiuolo (Florence, 1431-1498, Rome) Portrait of a Lady Ca. 1460-65 Oil and tempera on poplar panel 20 5/8 x 14 3/8 in. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin NEW YORK – Giuliano de’ Medici went to church on Sunday, April 26, 1478, not realizing that it was the last thing he would ever do. Known as the “Prince of Youth” of the Italian city-state of Florence, Giuliano de’ Medici was a charming young man with aristocratic good looks. As the Medici brothers stood amid a crowd of several thousand worshipers under the famous dome of the Florence Cathedral, four assassins crept toward them. Acts of violence like the Pazzi Conspiracy have occurred with depressing regularity throughout history. The Italian Renaissance changed this situation forever. The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini presents 160 works of art by the leading artists of Italy during the 1400′s. One of the secret supporters of the Pazzi Conspiracy is featured in an especially notable work.
FONDAZIONE GALILEO GALILEI - Homepage Whipple Library: Isaac Newton and Newtonianism: Popularisation and canonisation via the medium of print An exhibition of Whipple Library books curated by HPS Part II students: Anne Carter, Natalie Christie, Alastair Cliff and Nick Goodwin. Assisted by Jenny Rampling, Simon Schaffer and Tim Eggington. This is an online version of an exhibition of Whipple Library books, displayed in summer 2011. Following brainstorming sessions with Professor Simon Schaffer, our student curators (led by Jenny Rampling) used Whipple Library rare books to show the diverse modes through which the idea of Newton and Newtonianism permeated 18th-century thinking, via books and publishing. Within the confines of our small Library display cases four significant themes were identified in children's literature, popular science, fashion and academia. These indicate just some of the settings and agendas in which the name and work of Newton was promoted, appropriated and presented to 18th- and 19th-century readers. Newton and the scientific establishment
Computer History Museum John Maynard Keynes: "Newton, the Man" Newton, the Man John Maynard Keynes It is with some diffidence that I try to speak to you in his own home of Newton as he was himself. One other preliminary matter. In the eighteenth century and since, Newton came to be thought of as the first and greatest of the modern age of scientists, a rationalist, one who taught us to think on the lines of cold and untinctured reason. I do not see him in this light. Had there been time, I should have liked to read to you the contemporary record of the child Newton. For in vulgar modern terms Newton was profoundly neurotic of a not unfamiliar type, but - I should say from the records - a most extreme example. I believe that the clue to his mind is to be found in his unusual powers of continuous concentrated introspection. There is the story of how he informed Halley of one of his most fundamental discoveries of planetary motion. His experiments were always, I suspect, a means, not of discovery, but always of verifying what he knew already.
Computing at Harwell Computing at Harwell Jack Howlett 25 years of Theoretical Physics at Harwell:1954-1979 1. The Early Days I came to Harwell in the summer of 1948 at the invitation of Dr. Large View We - meaning Hartree's group - had done what at the time was rated a large-scale calculation for Fuchs and Peierls, concerned with the atomic bomb project. Computing then was a completely different world from what it is now. computational services were needed all over the Establishment, these needs were going to grow rapidly and what was wanted was a service available to everyone. It may seem strange today that an enterprise so large and so technologically and scientifically sophisticated should have been planned without a central computing service, but remember, this was 30 years ago and the power and all-pervading nature of computation could not possibly have been realised at the time. This was before the U.K.A.E.A. had been created, when Harwell was still part of the Ministry of Supply. 2. Large View Large View
The history of Newton's apple tree (tancat) This article contains a brief introduction to Newton's early life to put into context the subsequent events in this narrative. It is followed by a summary of accounts of Newton's famous story of his discovery of universal gravitation which was occasioned by the fall of an apple in the year 1665/6. Evidence of Newton's friendship with a prosperous Yorkshire family who planted an apple tree arbour in the early years of the eighteenth century to celebrate his discovery is presented. A considerable amount of new and unpublished pictorial and documentary material is included relating to a particular apple tree which grew in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor (Newton's birthplace) and which blew down in a storm before the year 1816. Evidence is then presented which describes how this tree was chosen to be the focus of Newton's account. Related articles View all related articles
Newton's Apple Tree (resum) Growing in a courtyard garden in the Physics Department here in the University of York we have a grafted cutting from an ancient apple tree which still survives in Newton's garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, his birthplace in Lincolnshire. This is the tree from which it is reputed that Newton saw an apple fall in the late summer of 1666 and which caused him to speculate upon the nature of gravitation. Our tree was given to us by Kew Gardens in 1976. The account of Isaac Newton's discovering the principle of universal gravitation by observing the fall of an apple is very well known and usually dismissed as apocryphal. he first thought of his system of gravitation which he hit upon by observing an apple fall from a tree The incident occurring in the late summer of 1666. In other accounts it is stated that Newton was sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham in Lincolnshire when the incident occurred. The tree is still remaining and is showed to strangers His brother the, Rev.
Newton i l'alquímia (Monterde) Newton and Alchemy. Newton devoted a great deal of his scientific life to an intense and secret search for the mythical Philosopher’s Stone. Although his search was in vain, he borrowed certain principles from alchemy, like the inspiration for his other very well-known scientific works, which gave him fame and respect: universality and action from a distance. However, Newton - father of current scientific method - sentenced alchemy to darkness. In fact, he and his first biographers did all they could to conceal his interest in alchemy. Els dos objectius principals de l’alquímia eren la pedra filosofal i l’elixir de la vida. ■ Newton i Llull Entre aquests llibres es poden trobar diversos del beat mallorquí Ramon Llull (1233-1316), anomenat “el doctor il·luminat”, amb qui, a més a més, el savi anglès es va lligar a través de tres fets. El primer és que possiblement Newton era coneixedor de la llegenda protagonitzada per Ramon Llull tres segles abans. ■ L’alquímia com a font d'inspiració