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Just watched this excellent documentary.
Instead of 'flowery' prose - just short cryptic highlights presented by me.
RENT IT - WATCH IT - LEARN !!!
NEWTON’S DARK SECRETS
Review of Documentary
© - Tom Hyland - 3-18-10
A ‘NOVA’ PRODUCTION FROM 2005.
SIR ISAAC NEWTON - 1642 - 1727
OXFORD - TRINITY COLLEGE - CAMBRIDGE
APPLE - GRAVITY
MATH - INVENTED CALCULUS
LIGHT - PRISM EXPERIMENTS
RE-DESIGNED GALILEO’S TELESCOPE
USING MIRRORS INSTEAD OF LENSES,
THUS REMOVING CHROMATIC AURAS
PREMATURE WHITE HAIR IN HIS TWENTIES.
ALCHEMIST - ‘THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE’
BELIEVED CODED NOTES FROM GREEK MYTHS
WERE ACTUALLY CHEMICAL RECIPES.
OCCULT ALCHEMY = MATTER THEORY
FORERUNNER OF MODERN CHEMISTRY
INVITED TO JOIN ROYAL SOCIETY -
YOUNGEST MEMBER EVER!
ROBERT HOOK - NEMESIS -
DISCLAIMED HIS PAPER ON LIGHT
HOLY TRINITY - NOT EQUAL!
CHRIST SON OF GOD, BUT NOT EQUAL!
BELIEVED ‘THIS’ WAS ‘HERESY’ AGAINST
THE FIRST COMMANDMENT!
WROTE MORE ABOUT RELIGION AND ALCHEMY
THAN MATH AND SCIENCE
BELIEVED STRONGLY IN GOD
OWNED MORE THAN THIRTY BIBLES
PREDICTED APOCALYPSE IN 2060 !
EDMUND HALLEY VISITED HIM WHEN HE WAS FORTY
NEWTON CALCULATED ELIPSES AS PLANET ORBITS,
USING FORMULA IN EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY
WROTE FIVE HUNDRED PAGE WORK
ON PHYSICS - ‘PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA’
BOTH TERRESTIAL AND CELESTIAL MOTION
ARE THE SAME
CANNONBALL AND GRAVITY
EVERY ACTION THERE IS EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION
ACTIVE PRINCIPLES OF NATURE
BRIEF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN FROM EXHAUSTION
AFTERWARDS MOVED TO LONDON
APPOINTED ‘MASTER OF THE MINT’
ISSUING NEW CURRENCY AND
CRACKING DOWN ON FORGERS
BECAME MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
PRESIDENT OF ROYAL SOCIETY
WAS KNIGHTED - ‘SIR ISAAC NEWTON’
COMMISSIONED FOURTEEN PORTRAITS
OF HIMSELF
SECOND GREAT PAPER PUBLISHED
‘OPTICKS’ - EXPANDED ON HIS WORK WITH LIGHT
AT END OF BOOK, WROTE UP HIS IDEAS
ON CALCULUS - FORTY YEARS AFTER CONCEPTION
DIED AT AGE EIGHTY-FOUR
BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY
AMONG KINGS AND QUEENS
PASSIONATE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
‘HERESY’ TO SOME - VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN.
NOW, TWO AND A HALF CENTURIES LATER,
A NEW PICTURE OF HIM IS JUST EMERGING.
MORE AND MORE OF HIS WRITINGS
ON RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ALCHEMY
ARE NOW BEING REVIEWED.
*** MY RATING = 10! ***
© - TKH.
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| Reviewed by Mr. Ed |
3/19/2010 |
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PREDICTED APOCALYPSE IN 2060
The way we're going now, Newton may have been off by about 30 or 40 years, but that ain't bad considering when he predicted it. |
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| Reviewed by Georg Mateos |
3/18/2010 |
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The question is: had Newton's apple a worm? if so, how it would have gotten in the way of the law-of-gravity if it had wings?
Just asking...
Cuz EDvard
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