Summary of Colin Pask's Magnificent Principia

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#1 Newton was a man who changed our view of the world and set us on the path to modern science. He was not a boy genius, like Mozart, but rather a man who was taught and encouraged by a talented father.

#2 Isaac Newton was born in 1642. He was named after his father, a prosperous yeoman farmer who had died three months earlier. The baby was premature, tiny, and sickly. He did not have a good relationship with his grandmother, and he was left out of his grandfather’s will.

#3 Newton was a student at the University of Cambridge from 1661 to 1665. He was made a fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and in 1672 he published Light and Colours, which described his theories on those subjects. In 1675, he published his Hypothesis Explaining the Properties of Light.

#4 Newton was a very private person, and he did not participate in university affairs. However, he did write letters to support the Christian religion and defend it against infidels. He had a mental breakdown in 1693, but recovered and continued his various activities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822531123

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#1

Newton was a man who changed our view of the world and set us on the path to modern science. He was not a boy genius, like Mozart, but rather a man who was taught and encouraged by a talented father.

#2

Isaac Newton was born in 1642. He was named after his father, a prosperous yeoman farmer who had died three months earlier. The baby was premature, tiny, and sickly. He did not have a good relationship with his grandmother, and he was left out of his grandfather’s will.

#3

Newton was a student at the University of Cambridge from 1661 to 1665. He was made a fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and in 1672 he published Light and Colours, which described his theories on those subjects. In 1675, he published his Hypothesis Explaining the Properties of Light.

#4

Newton was a very private person, and he did not participate in university affairs. However, he did write letters to support the Christian religion and defend it against infidels. He had a mental breakdown in 1693, but recovered and continued his various activities.

#5

Newton was a scientist and mathematician who lived from 1642 to 1727. He was elected president of the Royal Society in 1703, and Queen Anne made him Sir Isaac Newton in 1705. He died in 1727 on the twentieth of March.

#6

Newton was a professor of mathematics at Cambridge, and his work in that area has had a profound effect on the development of the subject. However, his interests ranged far beyond mathematics. He had a deep interest in religion and theological questions.

#7

The genius of Isaac Newton was amazingly diverse and complex. He was not the first of the age of reason, but he was the last of the magicians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance 10,000 years ago.

#8

Newton was a very religious man, and he believed in one God the Father rather than the Trinity of conventional religion. He did not accept Jesus as God, but as an agent and creation of God.

#9

Newton kept his religious views secret to avoid problems, but he was a devout Christian who believed in the Trinity and other Christian beliefs.

#10

Newton the man and his character have been studied recently. His early life was filled with conflict, with the young Isaac's separation from his mother and her wish for a farmer and manager while he had interest only in mechanisms, models, and studies.

#11

Isaac Newton was a lonely and dejected figure who spent little time with other boys. He was reluctant to publish his findings, and his famous disputes with many people are revealing.

#12

Newton is a good hero for the mathematician or scientist, but as a man he is full of contradictions and flaws. When we consider Newton the man as well as Newton the mathematician and scientist, we are left with the impression of hero, but a flawed hero.

#13

The literature on Newton and his work is vast, so this list is only a small personal selection. The definitive biography is Isaac Newton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in the VIP series, 2007.

#14

Newton’s Principia was the culmination of the Scientific Revolution, and it revolutionized the way we understand and describe motion. It also introduced the three questions that guide modern science: how do we understand and describe motion. how do we use those ideas to discuss motion on Earth, motion in the heavens, and the connections between them.

#15

The first stirrings of science occurred with the ancient Greeks, who absorbed and built on the knowledge of those earlier civilizations. They also had an alphabetical system of writing, so that even today we can read the books they created.

#16

Euclid's Elements is the first great mathematics book. It is an enduring masterpiece, and it gave us the first systematic approach to a branch of mathematics: geometry in a plane and in three dimensions.

#17

The European philosophical tradition is built on the ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Plato championed the importance of mathematics in science, and Aristotle was a pupil of Plato who created his own universal picture and procedures.

#18

Aristotle's first-agent proposal states that there must be a first agent of change, an eternal entity that is not changed even coincidentally. The first agent is located at the outer edge of the universe.

#19

Aristotle was the first to argue that there is no vacuum, and