I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Studies of alchemy also influenced Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.

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 ).

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

Representations of angels on sarcophagi and on objects such as lamps and reliquaries of that period also show them without wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument ( also known as " Newton's bucket ") was designed to demonstrate that true rotational motion cannot be defined as the relative rotation of the body with respect to the immediately surrounding bodies.

They began corresponding in the late 1820s and met for the first time in March 1830, when Isaac D ' Israeli dined at Bulwer-Lytton ’ s house ( also present that evening were Charles Pelham Villiers and Alexander Cockburn.

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

Here, one version of the Gospel of Barnabas also quotes Jesus as saying that the sacrificed son of Abraham was Ishmael not Isaac, conforming to Islamic belief but disagreeing with Jewish and Christian belief.

These works also influenced contemporary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and provided one of the foundations for Englishman Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

Isaac Asimov has also speculated that in the event that he had not been killed while in the service of the British Empire, Moseley might very well have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916, which was not awarded to anyone that year ( along with the prize for Chemistry ).

Like his father, Isaac also deceived Abimelech about his wife and also got into the well business.

In this testament, Isaac also talks with the crowds on the subjects of priesthood, asceticism, and the moral life.

The rabbis also thought that the reason for the death of Sarah was the news of the intended sacrifice of Isaac.

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 ).

These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

Moreover, the attitudes of their parents toward them also differed: " And Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

In contrast to Abraham — who illuminates the world with knowledge of God and earns the respect of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan — and Isaac — who continues his father's teachings and also lives in relative harmony with his neighbors — Jacob experiences many personal struggles both in the land and out of it-including the hatred of his brother, Esau ; the deception of his father-in-law, Laban ; the rape of his daughter, Dinah ; the death of his favorite wife, Rachel ; and the sale of his son, Joseph.

And He is called Angel and Apostle ; for He declares whatever we ought to know, and is sent forth to declare whatever is revealed ; as our Lord Himself says, “ He that heareth Me, heareth Him that sent Me .” From the writings of Moses also this will be manifest ; for thus it is written in them, “ And the Angel of God spoke to Moses, in a flame of fire out of the bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of thy fathers ; go down into Egypt, and bring forth My people .” And if you wish to learn what follows, you can do so from the same writings ; for it is impossible to relate the whole here.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

In numerical analysis, Newton's method ( also known as the Newton – Raphson method ), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots ( or zeroes ) of a real-valued function.

During World War II, he did aeronautical engineering for the U. S. Navy, also recruiting Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp to work at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Pennsylvania.

Since Sir Isaac Newton originated the concept of viscosity, the study of liquids with strain rate dependent viscosity is also often called Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics.

Isaac made a desperate attack on the imperial agents and killed their leader Stephen Hagiochristophorites.

David A. Clines, in his influential The Themes of the Pentateuch ( 1978 ), identified the overarching theme of the five books as the partial fulfilment of a promise to made by God to the patriarchs, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Special mention, however, must be made of the most important of them all: his biography of Sir Isaac Newton.

Also the widespread acceptance of video art as a form has made it possible for British artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Isaac Julien to make film works outside of the demands of cinema exhibition.

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.

Sir Isaac Isaacs and Sir Zelman Cowen were Jewish ; Bill Hayden is an avowed atheist and he made an affirmation rather than swear an oath at the beginning of his commission ; the remaining Governors-General have been at least nominally Christian.

The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

So, Isaac unearthed them and began to dig for more wells all the way to Beersheba, where he made a pact with Abimelech, just like in the day of his father.

Several verses speak of Isaac as a " gift " to Abraham ( VI: 84 ; XIX: 49-50 ), and XXIX: 26-27 adds that God made " prophethood and the Book to be among his offspring ", which has been interpreted to refer to Abraham's two prophetic sons, his prophetic grandson Jacob, and his prophetic great-grandson Joseph.

Jacob did as his mother instructed and, when he returned with the kids, Rebekah made the savory meat that Isaac loved.

Having made Jacob a ruler over his brothers, Isaac could only promise, " By your sword you shall live, but your brother you shall serve ; yet it shall be that when you are aggrieved, you may cast off his yoke from upon your neck " ( 27: 39-40 ).

Isaac Newton contended that light was made up of numerous small particles.

Isaac Asimov believed that Heinlein made a swing to the right politically at the same time he married Ginny.

The ten-in-one might be partly a freak show exhibiting " human oddities " ( including " born freaks " such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or " made freaks " like tattooed people, fat people or " human skeletons "- extremely thin men often " married " to the fat lady, like Isaac W. Sprague ).

Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.

Such an order is referred to in legal circles as an Isaac Wunder order after Isaac Wunder who made several claims against the Hospitals Trust claiming sweepstakes prizes, but the claims were found to be groundless and the case deemed frivolous or vexatious.

* First commercially successful sewing machine made by Isaac Singer

The conclusion made by Isaac Newton, stating that the change of movement of some bodies is caused by the impact of other bodies-is wrong and does not correspond to the facts.

The president of the court, Sir Isaac Coffin, wrote to the Admiralty and made several serious accusations against Bligh, including that he had influenced the officers to testify against Short.

* 1807 – Isaac de Rivas made a hydrogen gas powered internal combustion engine and mounted it on a vehicle.

Isaac Asimov called him " hard-luck Scheele " because he made a number of chemical discoveries before others who are generally given the credit.

He made a favourable impression on the composer and conductor Fromental Halévy, who gave him lessons in composition and orchestration and wrote to Isaac Offenbach in Cologne that the young man was going to be a great composer.

Secondly, transcriptions, usually made by Segovia himself, of classical works originally written for other instruments ( e. g., lute, harpsichord, piano, violin, cello ) by Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and many other prominent composers.