For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack
As new noted last time, Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist, is generally acknowledged to be one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Newton’s Principia states the foundations of the science of mechanics, developing upon them the mathematics of orbital motion, and also introduces the theory of fluids. From the density of air he calculated the speed of sound waves. Newton also proposed that both the planet and the Sun orbited around the planet-Sun system, and then modified Kepler's 3rd Law. But it usually isn’t mentioned in class to physics, math and engineering students that Isaac Newton owned more books on humanistic learning than on mathematics and science, and that all his life he studied them deeply. His unpublished classical scholia reveal his knowledge of pre-Socratic philosophy. He read the Fathers of the Church even more deeply.
