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When Aristotle meets Isaac Newton: A Clash of Views
Aristotle was a philosopher, scientist, and teacher of the classical Ancient Greece period. He was by all accounts influential; he taught many great things in plenty of fields. For a long time, his philosophies were accepted as they were and other scholars merely only added to them or modified them a little. His philosophies about physics were however incorrect, and it took the audacious minds of Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Galileo, and ultimately Sir Isaac Newton to overthrow the long-established Aristotelian dogma.
(more…)The secret life of Sir Isaac Newton: Three things you didn’t know
Sir Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727) might just be the greatest English physicist and mathematician of all time. According to a poll of scientists conducted by Physics World magazine in December 1999, Isaac Newton was voted the second greatest physicist of all time, only after Albert Einstein. But even Albert Einstein himself is said to have kept a picture of Isaac Newton on his study wall, along with those of James Clerk Maxwell and Michael Faraday. Such is the influence of the great man.
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