Newton wrote the words from personal experience.

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.

Isaac Newton wrote of the earth, "“ Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in æthereall breath for its dayly refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations, And according to the condition of all other things living ought to have its times of beginning youth old age & perishing .”

In 1670, he wrote that all the algebra books known to him lacked a lesson for solving simultaneous equations, which Newton then supplied.

Of the 348 hymns in the original published edition of 1779 some commentaries state that Cowper wrote just 66 between 1772 and 1773, and Newton the remainder, while other sources attribute 67 to Cowper.

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.

There is no evidence to show that either Newton or Cowper wrote any music to accompany the hymns.

The solar tidal acceleration at the Earth's surface was first given by Newton in the ' Principia '< ref >, Book 3, Proposition 36, Page 307 Newton put the force to depress the sea at places 90 degrees distant from the Sun at " 1 to 38604600 " ( in terms of g ), and wrote that the force to raise the sea along the Sun-Earth axis is " twice as great ", i. e. 2 to 38604600, which comes to about 0. 52 × 10 < sup >- 7 </ sup > g as expressed in the text .</ ref >

It is in part on the basis of these papers that Keynes wrote of Newton as " the last of the magicians.

In 17th century the explanations of the optical spectrum came from Isaac Newton, when he wrote his book Opticks.

In the preface of the Principia, Newton wrote

In his notes, Newton wrote that the inverse square law arose naturally due to the structure of matter.

Newton firmly rejected such criticisms and wrote that it was enough that the phenomena implied gravitational attraction, as they did ; but the phenomena did not so far indicate the cause of this gravity, and it was both unnecessary and improper to frame hypotheses of things not implied by the phenomena: such hypotheses " have no place in experimental philosophy ", in contrast to the proper way in which " particular propositions are inferr'd from the phenomena and afterwards rendered general by induction ".

Newton frankly admitted that this change of style was deliberate when he wrote, in the introduction to Book 3, that he had ( first ) composed this book " in a popular method, that it might be read by many ", but to " prevent the disputes " by readers who could not " lay aside the prejudices ", he had " reduced " it " into the form of propositions ( in the mathematical way ) which should be read by those only, who had first made themselves masters of the principles established in the preceding books ".

Richard Bentley, master of Trinity College, persuaded Newton to allow him to undertake a second edition, and in June 1708 Bentley wrote to Newton with a specimen print of the first sheet, at the same time expressing the ( unfulfilled ) hope that Newton had made progress towards finishing the revisions.

" Sullivan wrote that Hooke was " positively unscrupulous " and possessing an " uneasy apprehensive vanity " in dealings with Newton.

In 1704 Isaac Newton wrote in his book Opticks Book 1, Part 1

Outside his academic historical writing, Hobsbawm wrote a regular column ( under the pseudonym Francis Newton ', taken from the name of Billie Holiday's communist trumpet player, Frankie Newton ) for the New Statesman as a jazz critic, and time to time over popular music such as with his " Beatles and before " article.

Newton wrote that the field should be called " rational mechanics.

His religious sentiment and association with John Newton ( who wrote the hymn " Amazing Grace ") led to much of the poetry for which he is best remembered.

Is the future of psychology akin to the rich future of physics at the time of Newton??

Isaac Newton, at the age of twenty-three, industriously calculating logarithms `` to two and fifty places '' during the great plague year in England, 1665 ; ;

For the next few years, Newton was raised by his emotionally distant stepmother while his father was at sea, and spent some time at a boarding school where he was mistreated.

He sings the sixth and fifth verses in that order, and Stowe included another verse not written by Newton that had been passed down orally in African American communities for at least 50 years.

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

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.

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.

Examples include Cairn Holy I and Cairn Holy II near Newton Stewart, a cairn at Port Charlotte, Islay, which dates to 3900-4000 BC, and Monamore, or Meallach's Grave, Arran, which may date from the early fifth millennium BC.

In the U. S. at the time other political phrases ( such as " Free Huey " about Black Panther Huey Newton ) became briefly popular as graffiti in limited areas, only to be forgotten.

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.

However, some scientists ( called " relativists " by Mach ), even at the time of Newton, felt that absolute space was a defect of the formulation, and should be replaced.

In the mid-1660s, when Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, the East India Company was beginning to import indigo dye into England, supplanting the homegrown source of blue dye woad.

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

Newton spent two years at boarding school.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: Walter and Arthur Severn, and Ann Mary Newton, who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, Charles Thomas Newton.

Newton observed that “ A good watch may serve to keep a reckoning at sea for some days and to know the time of a celestial observation ; and for this end a good Jewel may suffice till a better sought of watch can be found out.

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.

At the age of thirteen he enrolled at the University of Basel, and in 1723, received his Master of Philosophy with a dissertation that compared the philosophies of Descartes and Newton.

For objects traveling at speeds close to the speed of light, Newton ’ s laws were superseded by Albert Einstein ’ s theory of relativity.

Manchester United was formed in 1878 as Newton Heath LYR Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon department of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ( LYR ) depot at Newton Heath.