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Newton also suffered a nervous breakdown during his period of alchemical work, which is thought by some to have resulted from the psychological transformation alchemy was originally designed to induce, though there is also speculation that it may have been some form of chemical poisoning ( possibly from mercury, lead, or some other substance ).
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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 ).
Newton also developed a law for the drag force on a flat plate inclined towards the direction of the fluid flow.
A supplementary thought experiment with the same objective of determining the occurrence of absolute rotation also was proposed by Newton: the example of observing two identical spheres in rotation about their center of gravity and tied together by a string.
The faculties of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York and of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts also includes a large number of Conservative rabbis.
MI5 also placed a spy, Harry Newton, in the CND office.
Abauzit is also notable for proofreading or correcting the writings of Isaac Newton and other scholars.
He also developed the principles of equilibrium states and centers of gravity, ideas that would influence the Islamic scholars, Galileo, and Newton.
As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary.
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.
Newton also explains his two primary motives for publishing ; his desire to promote ' the faith and comfort of sincere Christians ', and as a permanent record of his friendship with Cowper.
The six stanza version quoted is the original, as written by Newton, but it has also appeared in longer forms where others have added verses or where verses from other hymns from the Olney books have been moved across.
The word " photon " was coined in 1926 by physical chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis ( see also the articles photon antibunching and laser ).
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.
Wilberforce was also urged by his close friend, Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, to make the issue his own, and was also given support by reformed Evangelical John Newton.
In the Axioms Scholium of his Principia Newton said its axiomatic three laws of motion were already accepted by mathematicians such as Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Wallace, Wren and others, and also in memos in his draft preparations of the second edition of the Principia he attributed its first law of motion and its law of gravity to a range of historical figures.
According to Newton himself and other historians of science, his Principia's first law of motion was the same as Aristotle's counterfactual principle of interminable locomotion in a void stated in Physics 4. 8. 215a19 – 22 and was also endorsed by ancient Greek atomists and others.
Newton had also specifically attributed the inherent power of inertia to matter, against the mechanist thesis that matter has no inherent powers.
But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.
Newton also recognized that weight as measured by the action of weighing was affected by environmental factors such as buoyancy.
Bernard Martin argues in The Ancient Mariner and the Authentic Narrative that Coleridge was also influenced by the life of Anglican clergyman John Newton, who had a near-death experience aboard a slave ship.
After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton also published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726.
In Book 3 Newton also made clear his heliocentric view of the solar system, modified in a somewhat modern way, since already in the mid-1680s he recognized the " deviation of the Sun " from the centre of gravity of the solar system.
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It is known, however, that Newton wrote some of the hymns in direct response to events around him ; ' Oh for a closer walk with God ' for instance was written in response to the serious illness then being suffered by Cowper's house companion, Mary Unwin, an illness she survived.
His reputation suffered after his death and this is popularly attributed to a dispute with Isaac Newton over credit for his work on gravitation, the planets and to a lesser degree light.
Although almost 80 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Newton suffered extensive damage in September 2005 from Hurricane Rita.
Newton has suffered from bulimia.
During the period 1692-1693 Newton is known to have suffered a breakdown of nervous functioning, or a supposed psychosis ( Spivak & Epstein ) lasting for 18 months, as reported by Huygens.
* Amateur pilot Charles Newton and his wife Judy were flying in a small engine plane when he suffered a fatal heart attack.
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His physical theory, he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to nervous action which Isaac Newton had published in his Principia.
Grodin's career took a turn in 1992, when he played the nervous family man George Newton in the kids ' comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie Hunt.
A physician by profession, he sought to combine with an elaborate theory of mental association a minutely detailed hypothesis as to the corresponding action of the nervous system, based upon the suggestion of a vibratory motion within the nerves thrown out by Isaac Newton in the last paragraph of the Principia.
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Thiele's departure was in part precipitated by the breakdown of his relationship with ABC Records sales manager Larry Newton.
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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 ; ;
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 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with the publication of a forceful pamphlet " Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade ", in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage, and apologized for " a confession, which ... comes too late ...
Newton later came to believe that during the first five of his nine years as a slave trader he had not been a Christian in the full sense of the term: " I was greatly deficient in many respects ...
This temporarily limited term entered the lexicon during the twentieth century and has been applied oddly, to great thinkers living before and after the Renaissance such as Aristotle, Avicenna, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Isaac Newton.
She was born at the Old Catawba Hospital in Newton, North Carolina, during a trip from their Georgetown home in Washington, D. C.
* June 8 – Newton rebellion: The Tresham landowners family kills 40 – 50 peasants during protests against the enclosure of common land in Newton, Northamptonshire, UK, at the culmination of the Midland Revolt.
In Europe, during the later half of the 17th century, Newton and Leibniz independently developed infinitesimal calculus, which grew, with the stimulus of applied work that continued through the 18th century, into analysis topics such as the calculus of variations, ordinary and partial differential equations, Fourier analysis, and generating functions.
Newton's single-minded attention to his work generally, and to his project during this time, is shown by later reminiscences from his secretary and copyist of the period, Humphrey Newton.
( Newton had also communicated ' De motu ...' to Flamsteed, and during the period of composition he exchanged a few letters with Flamsteed about observational data on the planets, eventually acknowledging Flamsteed's contributions in the published version of the ' Principia ' of 1687.
Newton had studied these books, or, in some cases, secondary sources based on them, and taken notes entitled Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae ( Questions about philosophy ) during his days as an undergraduate.
The flag was raised on January 26, 1992 during a special ceremony at the Government Center in Newton.
Newton County residents were very divided during the Civil War, serving in both the Confederate and Union armies.
Cotati's hexagonal plaza and street grid plan was designed during the 1890s by Newton Smyth as an alternative to the traditional grid.
Reverend Newton founded the first school, which also doubled as a church during the Civil War.
Newton Memorial Hospital opened in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression.
Noted American composer Homer Newton Bartlett resided at 32 Maple Avenue in Ellenville for many years during the late 19th century.
Pioneers building the flatboat, Adventure Galley, at Sumrill ’ s Ferry ( present-day West Newton, Pennsylvania ) during March 1788
* Newton Blackmour State Trail: 23 miles ( 37 km ) long, Welcome to Hikers, bikers, and horseback riders during summer months ; snowmobiling, snowshoing, and cross country sking during winter months-( Part of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy )
Chaired by former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, the board was convened during the Air Mail scandal to study Air Corps organization.
Further alterations were made to the gardens by Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton and his wife during the early 20th century.
The vaudeville talents of Graham Kennedy, Don Lane and Bert Newton earned popular success during the early years of Australian television.
" None of the lawyers in the case was convicted of perjury or struck off during the scandal but Somerset's solicitor, Arthur Newton, was convicted of obstruction of justice for helping his clients escape abroad and was sentenced to six weeks in prison.
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