Isaac (;, Yiçḥaq, " he will laugh ";, ;, ; ; or ) as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah, and was the father of Jacob and Esau.

Some scholars have described Isaac as " a legendary figure " while others view him " as a figure representing tribal history, though as a historical individual " or " as a seminomadic leader.

Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.

George Sylvester Viereck and Paul Eldridge wrote a trilogy of novels My First Two Thousand Years, an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, ( 1928 ), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will " tarry until I return ," goes on to influence many of the great events of history ; he frequently encounters Solome ( described as ' The Wandering Jewess '), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion ( another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death ).

Isaac Newton ( 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 ) is credited with introducing the idea that the motion of objects in the heavens, such as planets, the Sun, and the Moon, and the motion of objects on the ground, like cannon balls and falling apples, could be described by the same set of physical laws.

In 1196 Philip became duke of Swabia, on the death of his brother Conrad ; and in May 1197 he married the Dowager Queen of Sicily, Irene Angelina, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II and widow of King Roger III of Sicily, a lady who is described by Walther von der Vogelweide as " the rose without a thorn, the dove without guile ".

According to the reminiscences of Isaac Odell, a former minstrel who described the development of the genre in an interview given in 1907, Rice appeared onstage at Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1830s and learned there to mimic local black speech: " Coming to New York he opened up at the old Park Theatre, where he introduced his Jim Crow act, impersonating a negro slave.

Isaac Asimov, in his foreword to the Signet Classics 1984 edition, described Flatland as " The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.

Sarah or Sara (; Śarra ; ; Arabic: Sārah ; Persian: Sārā ) was the wife of Abraham and the mother of Isaac as described in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.

Isaac Asimov described assumptions as follows:

Many intellectuals believed that the human mind could comprehend the universe through the laws of physics as described by Isaac Newton.

Some examples of the method had previously appeared in algebra books, and Isaac Newton had previously described the method in his lecture notes, but Newton's lesson was not published until 1707.

However, in 1672, Isaac Newton had described it and correctly inferred the cause after observing tennis players in his Cambridge college.

It is thought that by the time of Theophrastus, the citron was mostly cultivated in the Persian Gulf on its way to the Mediterranean basin, where it was cultivated during the later centuries in different areas as described by Erich Isaac.

Driven by Sir Isaac Newton's somewhat obscure assertion of " a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies ", Challis was driven to attempt to derive all physical phenomena from a model of intert spherical atoms embedded in an elastic fluid ether, an enterprise described as an attempt at a " Victorian unified field theory ".

Isaac is described as an irascible and violent man, " boiling with anger like a kettle on the fire ", but Niketas clearly is not very partial to him.

Sir Isaac described it in 1934 as being " stripped of its glamour, with no furnishings but a few fine mirrors, its garden wild and overgrown ".

Francis Bacon in his Novum Organum first described the concept of a situation in which one theory but not others would hold true, using the name instantia crucis ; the phrase experimentum crucis, denoting the deliberate creation of such a situation for the purpose of testing the rival theories, was later coined by Robert Hooke and then famously used by Isaac Newton.

Several of the founders of the University of London are directly associated with the founding of the school ; they include Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux ( who appears to be singled out as the ring leader in A tradition for Freedom ), Lord Auckland ( probably George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland ), William Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Henry Hallam, Leonard Horner ( The Royal Society of Edinburgh has described UCS as his ' monument ' ), James Mill, Viscount Sandon ( probably either Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby or Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby ), James Lock, Stephen Lushington D. C. L.

Isaac le Chapelier described this at the time as " the hope of those who wish to see liberty and the constitution perish.

Gaia is a fictional planet described in the book Foundation's Edge ( 1982 ) and referred to in Foundation and Earth ( 1986 ), by Isaac Asimov.

* Tohu and Tikkun: The two stages of Existence described in the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria.

The phenomenon was first described by Robert Hooke in his 1664 book Micrographia, although its name derives from the physicist Isaac Newton, who was the first to analyze it.

In the 1640s a French Jesuit priest named Isaac Jogues described Fort Orange as " a wretched little fort ... built of stakes, with four or five pieces of cannon of Breteuil ".

Some literary critics have described Asimov's psychohistory as a reformulation, either for better or worse, of Karl Marx's theory of history ( historical materialism ), though Asimov denied any direct influence.

Bester described it as " hitting him with an Asimov "— Garibaldi could want to kill Bester all he wanted, but he could not actually kill Bester, or through inaction allow Bester to come to harm, similar to Asimov's first law of robotics.

" He described Asimov's commentary as " so marvelously consistent -- and consistently entertaining.

He described the process in his autobiography:

" Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

This is how Wright described, in his autobiography, the influence of these exercises on his approach to design: " For several years I sat at the little Kindergarten table-top.

The spirit that animated his work is best described by himself at the end of his autobiography:

Benaud erroneously recalled in an autobiography that this was his maiden wicket — it was his fourth — and described the ball as " the worst I ever bowled ".

In Riis ' autobiography, he described the effect of his book on the new police commissioner:

In his autobiography, Olivier described his " grievous anguish " as he immediately travelled to Leigh's residence, to find that Merivale had moved her body on to the bed.

Wagner's autobiography Mein Leben described the genesis of Die Meistersinger.

Sir Henry Bessemer described the origin of his invention in Chapters 10 and 11 of his autobiography.

Hepburn described in her autobiography how she followed him to the kitchen: " Just as I was about to give door a push, there was a sound of a cup smashing to the floor — then clump — a loud clump.

In Peter Fonda's 1998 autobiography Don't Tell Dad ( 1998 ), he described how he was never sure how his father felt about him.

In his autobiography, Johann Valentin Andreae ( 1586 – 1654 ) claimed the anonymously published Chymische Hochzeit ( Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz ) as one of his works, and he subsequently described it as a ludibrium.

In Inward Hunger, his autobiography, he described his experience of racism in Great Britain, and the impact on him of his travels in Germany after the Nazi seizure of power.

In his autobiography, Take Me Home, Denver described his life as the eldest son of a family shaped by a stern father who could not show his love for his children.

In his autobiography, Norbert described his father as calm and patient, unless he ( Norbert ) failed to give a correct answer, at which his father would lose his temper.

It was also during this tour that Slick and Morrison allegedly engaged in a brief sexual relationship, described in Slick's 1998 autobiography.

As described in his autobiography, on pages 58 and 75-76, he saved enough money from his early minor league experience in 1910-1911 to train to become a dentist.

This incident is described in the first volume of Dawson's autobiography A Clown Too Many.

She described her own anxiety and lack of confidence based on her gender in her autobiography, and she did not assign duties to her daughter at the paper as she did to her son.

Hughes ' autobiography A London Home in the 1890s repeatedly refers to halma as an alternative to chess for relaxation, though the actual playing is never described.

He was described by former West Virginia governor William A. MacCorkle in his autobiography The Recollections of Fifty Years as a man who knew the geology of the area " as a farmer knows a field.

Bahrdt's year's enforced leisure he spent in writing indecent stories, coarse polemics, and an autobiography which is described as " a mixture of lies, hypocrisy and self-prostitution.

He described his experiences during this era in his autobiography, Radiant Science, Dark Politics.

For example, in his autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt described his uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, as " a veritable Colonel Newcome ".