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Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;
During the 1670s corpuscularianism was used by Isaac Newton in his development of the corpuscular theory of light.
It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery ( which he did not name or formally describe ).
In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.
Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.
Sir Isaac Newton was the first person to develop a theory of air resistance, making him one of the first aerodynamicists.
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In 1704, Isaac Newton famously outlined his atomic bonding theory, in " Query 31 " of his Opticks, whereby atoms attach to each other by some " force ".
From the 16th century, researchers including Jan Baptist van Helmont, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton tried to establish theories of the experimentally observed chemical transformations.
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.
In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.
The development of the Cartesian coordinate system would play an intrinsic role in the development of the calculus by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
He covers over 40 scientists, with special attention paid to Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton.
The basic principle of dimensional analysis was known to Isaac Newton ( 1686 ) who referred to it as the " Great Principle of Similitude ".
Special mention, however, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir Isaac Newton.
In 1831 he published a short popular account of the philosopher's life in Murray's Family Library ; but it was not until 1855 that he was able to issue the much fuller Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, a work which embodied the results of more than 20 years ' investigation of original manuscripts and other available sources.
Isaac Newton studied these effects and attributed them to inflexion of light rays.
Young's experiment, performed in the early 1800s, played a vital part in the acceptance of the wave theory of light, vanquishing the corpuscular theory of light proposed by Isaac Newton, which had been the accepted model of light propagation in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Sir Isaac Newton contributed his only published work on chemistry to the second volume of 1710.
Humbolt drew inspiration from Isaac Newton as he developed a form of " terrestrial physics.
To account for slowing due to friction, Leibniz theorized that thermal energy consisted of the random motion of the constituent parts of matter, a view shared by Isaac Newton, although it would be more than a century until this was generally accepted.
In the eighteenth century the same possibility was mentioned by Isaac Newton in the " General Scholium " that concludes his Principia.
This method of designating stars first appeared in a preliminary version of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica which was published by Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton in 1712 without Flamsteed's approval.
It was later included in the King James Bible, something Isaac Newton commented on in An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture.
Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.

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The ABC had been examined by John Mauchly in June 1941, and Isaac Auerbach, a former student of Mauchly's, alleged that it influenced his later work on ENIAC, although Mauchly denied this ( Shurkin, pg.
Former colonial governors of Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward, as well as the Reverend Isaac Backus and the Reverend Samuel Stillman, were among those who played an instrumental role in Brown's foundation and later became American revolutionaries.
As described in Isaac Asimov's autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club ( headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian ) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overt political stance.
Isaac Singer, who made improvements to an existing model of a sewing machine in the 1850s, began one of the first franchising efforts in the United States, followed later by Coca-Cola, Western Union, etc.
Hasidism was brought to Hungary later, in early 1800s, by Kaliv ( Hasidic dynasty ) | Yitzchak Isaac Taub of Kaliv and Moshe Teitelbaum ( Ujhel ) | Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhel
The sacrifice of Isaac is cited in appeals for the mercy of God in later Jewish traditions.
In the Qur ' an, it later narrates that Abraham also praised God for giving him Ishmael and Isaac in his old age ( XIV: 39-41 ).
After Jacob died there 17 years later, Joseph carried Jacob's remains to the land of Canaan, where he gave them stately burial in the same Cave of Machpelah as were buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah and Jacob's wife, Leah ().
Several years later, with his brother, Isaac, Jacob published the Bible commentary Miklal Yofi by Solomon ben Melekh which included his own commentary, Lekket Shikchah ( Gleanings ), on the Pentateuch, the Book of Joshua, and part of the Book of Judges.
Some eight decades later, Isaac Newton proved that relationships like Kepler's would apply exactly under certain ideal conditions that are to a good approximation fulfilled in the solar system, as consequences of Newton's own laws of motion and law of universal gravitation.
In 1915 Yeshiva College ( later Yeshiva University ) and its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary was established in New York, New York for training in an Orthodox milieu.
MacDonald was a political radical, and Isaac Asimov later recalled that Heinlein was, like her, " a flaming liberal.
This cosmology was accepted by Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens and later scientists.
The plea bargain was later mocked by former Maryland Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs as " the greatest deal since the Lord spared Isaac on the mountaintop ".
The later theory of light by Isaac Newton in his Opticks proposed a different explanation for reflection, refraction and interference of light assuming the existence of light particles.
A few days later, with nothing more to fear as his position as emperor was now secure, Manuel ordered the release of Isaac.
Richard Elliott Friedman has argued that the story may have originally had Abraham carrying out the sacrifice of Isaac, but that later repugnance at the idea of a human sacrifice led a redactor to add the lines in which a ram is substituted for Isaac.
While at the beginning Isaac had accepted, he later on refused to give any help.
This work resembles the Hilchot of the Rif ( Rabbi Isaac Alfasi )-also an adumbration-but differs in quoting later authorities: Maimonides, the Tosafists and Alfasi himself.
The Three Laws of Robotics ( often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws ) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov and later added to.
Isaac Newton was a noted Baconian — his famous quote hypotheses non fingo ( I don't frame hypotheses ) was featured in later editions of the Principia, demonstrating his preference for rules that could be demonstrated by formal proof, as opposed to unevidenced hypotheses.
Over a century later precession was explained in Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( 1687 ) to be a consequence of gravitation ( Evans 1998, p. 246 ).
The heliocentric theory was successfully revived nearly 1800 years later by Copernicus, after which Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton gave the theoretical explanation based on laws of physics, namely Kepler's laws for the motion of planets and Newton's laws on gravitational attraction and dynamics.

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