By Edward Dolnick
Ebook
A look at the founding of the Royal Society and early science. This dovetails nicely with Age of Wonder.
12.2% Yes let's not forget that Newton was first and foremost an alchemist and code cracker. He was convinced that the ancient knowledge was spelled out plainly for those who could break the code.
The papers of Issac Newton were purchased by John Maynard Keynes who firat discovered Newton's quest. Keynes claimed that ,"Newton was not the first inhabitant of the modern world... but the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians."
12.4% " The Royal Society's motto was Nullius in Verba [Don't take anyones word for it]."
14.0 The old world of hoarding your scientific discoveries was out. This new paradigm instituted by the members of the Royal Society would be to publish that all may benefit.
54.6% " Hooke claimed, and, unlike Newton, he had interpreted them correctly. He said so, dismissively, lengthily, and unwisely. (It was at this point that Newton sent a letter to the hunchbacked Hooke with a mock-gracious passage about how Newton stood “on the shoulders of giants.”)" So that's where that came from.
55.5% "The Principia made its first appearance, in a handsome, leatherbound volume, on July 5, 1687. "
Awesome book highly reccommend it
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