" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

Author Gilbert Chase writes that " Amazing Grace " is " without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns ," and Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that it is performed about 10 million times annually.

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

The Newton formula can lead one to believe that flight is more difficult than it actually is, due to this overprediction of drag and thus required thrust, and it may have contributed to a delay in human flight.

Acrylic paints with gloss or matte finishes are available, although a satin ( semi-matte ) sheen is most common ; some brands exhibit a range of finish ( e. g., heavy-body paints from Golden, Liquitex, Winsor & Newton and Daler-Rowney ). Politec acrylics are fully matte.

In his paper " The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism ," ( 1921 ) Housman stated: " A textual critic engaged upon his business is not at all like Newton investigating the motion of the planets: he is much more like a dog hunting for fleas.

Following the classical dynamics of Newton and Euler, the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally applied forces which are assumed to be of two kinds: surface forces and body forces.

Specifically, after acknowledging the various popular theories in vogue at the time, of how atoms were reasoned to attach to each other, i. e. " hooked atoms ", " glued together by rest ", or " stuck together by conspiring motions ", Newton states that he would rather infer from their cohesion, that " particles attract one another by some force, which in immediate contact is exceedingly strong, at small distances performs the chemical operations, and reaches not far from the particles with any sensible effect.

Later, those as Robert Boyle, John Mayow, Johann Glauber, Isaac Newton, and Georg Stahl put forward ideas on elective affinity in attempts to explain how heat is evolved during combustion reactions.

Three scenarios were suggested by Newton to answer the question of whether the absolute rotation of a local frame can be detected ; that is, if an observer can decide whether an observed object is rotating or if the observer is rotating.

Some sources, including Newton, refer to the entire force as a centripetal force, even for eccentric orbits, for which gravity is not aligned with the direction to the center of curvature.

Essentially, Euler-MacLaurin summation can be applied whenever Carlson's theorem holds ; the Euler-MacLaurin formula is essentially a result obtaining from the study of finite differences and Newton series.

Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.

Archimedes ( 287-212 BC ), of Syracuse, Sicily, when it was a Greek city-state, is often considered to be the greatest of the Greek mathematicians, and occasionally even named as one of the three greatest of all time ( along with Isaac Newton and Carl Friedrich Gauss ).

However, this policy was contentious among the encyclopedists and so some biographies were " hidden " inside articles ; for example, the article on Wolstrope ( Woolsthorpe ), England is almost entirely about the life of Newton.

The term is used in various ways: to refer to a particular aspect of an individual, or the individual in their entirety ; to a scholar in many subjects ( e. g. Isaac Newton or Leonardo da Vinci ) or a scholar in a single subject ( e. g., Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking ).

Carver was born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Newton County, near Crystal Place, now known as Diamond, Missouri, possibly in 1864 or 1865, though the exact date is not known.

The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of Christian silver church plate from the early 4th century and the Roman villas at Lullingstone and Hinton St Mary contained Christian wall paintings and mosaics respectively.

Newton sought to remove the use of infinitesimals from his fluxional calculus, preferring to talk of velocities as in " For by the ultimate velocity is meant ... the ultimate ratio of evanescent quantities ".

Newton viewed the first law as valid in any reference frame that is in uniform motion relative to the fixed stars ; that is, neither rotating nor accelerating relative to the stars.

Newton county claims to be the birthplace of Georgia 4-H. Actually, the Girls Canning and Boys Corn Clubs in 1904 by G. C.

Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton

Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, was the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton on 25 December 1642 ( old calendar ).

The town is best known as the birthplace of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and the place where Isaac Newton went to school.

It is best known as the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.

* Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, in the parish of Colsterworth, the birthplace of Isaac Newton, also in Lincolnshire, England

The parish was the birthplace of the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club which was established in 1878 and later became the world famous Manchester United.

Holsworthy was the birthplace in 1886 of the prominent Methodist minister and ecumenist Robert Newton Flew.

During this period, the only Afrikaners to achieve much mainstream fame were Anton Goosen, a rock singer-songwriter, and Bles Bridges, an imitator of American lounge singer Wayne Newton.

Performers with Native American parentage have occasionally appeared in American popular music, such as Robbie Robertson ( The Band ), Rita Coolidge, Wayne Newton, Gene Clark, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Blackfoot, Tori Amos, Redbone, and CocoRosie.

Amos was born in Newton, North Carolina, the daughter of Mary Ellen and the Reverend Edison Amos.

" It should be noted that Rudy H. Leverett was the Great-grandson of Major Amos McLemore, whom Newton Knight and his band killed while McLemore was engaged in the duty of capturing and returning the Jones County deserters to Confederate military duty.

The leader of a number of the resident deserters, Newton Knight, shot McLemore in the back as McLemore and other officers and friends sat around the fireplace of state Representative Amos Deason's house in Ellisville.

* Major Amos McLemore: Schoolteacher, Methodist pastor and one-time opponent of Southern secession from the Union, turned Confederate officer once invasion by the North was imminent, assassinated by Newton Knight

In 1795, the first permanent settlers arrived with their families — John Marble, Gardner Brown, Amos Trask, Levi Newton, David Torrey and John Gould.

The Twenty Associates, in addition to Blake, included William E. Abbot, Amos Angell, Ira L. Benton, Enoch Blake, John Newton Brown, George W. Currier, Hypolitus Fisk, John C. French, David Higgins, John S. Hobbs, Samuel Salmon Mooney, William Nightingale, J. Wentworth Payson, Dwight B.

It was designed by Ernest Newton and a ballroom was added in 1903 by Amos Faulkner ( Willett's in-house architect ).

In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames.

Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, the son of Joanne Louise ( née Pickens ), a homemaker, and Charles Newton Campbell, an amateur actor and traveling billboard inspector.

Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

John Newton was born in Wapping, London, in 1725, the son of John Newton Sr., a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth Newton ( née Seatclife ), a Nonconformist Christian.

Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, son of Julian Clifford Jaynes ( 1854 – 1922 ), a Unitarian minister, and Clara Bullard Jaynes ( 1884-1980 ).

She was born at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D. C.

She likewise supported Huey Newton and the Black Panthers in the early 1970s, stating " Revolution is an act of love ; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels.

Country singer / songwriter Paul Overstreet was born in Newton.

* Juice Newton ( born 1952 ), Grammy Award-winning American pop music and country singer.

Newton Martin Curtis, born in the town was a postmaster, brigadier general, and customs inspector.

* Michael Newton ( born 1986 ) Notable bare knuckle boxer and Assistant Football Coach at Juniata College.

Plunkett was born in New Carlisle, Ohio and attended Newton High School, Manchester College ( BA chemistry 1932 ) and Ohio State University ( Ph. D. chemistry 1936 ).

Ives was born in 1909 near Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois near Newton, Illinois ; the son of Levi " Frank " Ives ( 1880 – 1947 ) and Cordelia " Dellie " White ( 1882 – 1954 ).

Booth Tarkington was born Newton Booth Tarkington in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington.

Helmut Newton ( born Helmut Neustädter ; 31 October 192023 January 2004 ) was a German-Australian photographer.

Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara " Claire " ( née Marquis ) and Max Neustädter, a button factory owner.

He was born in Newton Abbot, England, the son of a solicitor.

Gullette was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Margaret Leslie ( née Morganroth ), a cultural critic and writer, and David George Gullette, a professor of English.

Actor Robert Newton, best known for his portrayals of Long John Silver and Bill Sikes in the 1948 David Lean film Oliver Twist, was born in Shaftesbury.

* December 21-John Newton, songwriter (" Amazing Grace ") ( born 1725 )