PBS/Nova ran a show on Sir Isaac Newton the other night entitled Newton's Dark Secrets. Interesting though it was, for years I have claimed that Sir Isaac's true "dark secret" was that he learned how to travel through time. Yep. Right up to the 1970's. He wanted to be a rock legend...
"Newton, Lake and Palmer" just doesn't cut it though.
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I've been enjoying Tom Levenson's "Diary of a Trade Book" series quite a bit (the latest post is on cover art), so when I say a stack of copies of
Over at Pure Pedantry, Kara has a nice post on Goethe and game theory.
We kicked off the countdown to Newton's birthday with his second law of motion, which is almost but not quite everything you need to understand and predict the motion of objects.
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And all this time I thought he surreptitiously invented the fig. Oh well...
He had the ego for it.
Had he traveled through time to be a rock star, he could have gotten laid, which would have been nice for him.