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i heard a claim that he actually never heard of Isaac Newton in his entire scientific career?

>> No.10363258

>>10363254
Why would you believe that?

>> No.10363268

>>10363258
Because Newton was only well known by british scientists...i believe continental european scientists until about the 1960s never knew who he was

>> No.10363289

>>10363268
is this accurate?

>> No.10363291

>>10363268
wrong

>>10363254
>In his Autobiographical Notes Einstein wrote:

>"Enough of this! Newton, forgive me; you found the only way which, in your age, was just about possible for a man of highest thought – and creative power. The concepts, which you created, are even today still guiding our thinking in physics, although we now know that they will have to be replaced by others farther removed from the sphere of immediate experience if we aim at a more profound understanding of relationships".

>Einstein replaced the concepts which Newton created and he asked Newton to forgive him.

>In his article “What is the Theory of Relativity?”, Times, November 28, 1919, Einstein wrote on Newton:

>“His clear and wide-ranging ideas will retain their unique significance for all time as the foundation of our whole modern conceptual structure in the sphere of natural philosophy”.

>In a forward from 1931 to Newton’s book, Opticks Einstein wrote: “In one person he combined the experimenter, the theorist, the mechanic, and, not the least, the artist of exposition”.

>On Newton’s upcoming 300th birthday in 1942 Einstein said:

>“Newton was the first to succeed in finding a clearly formulated basis from which he could deduce a wide field of phenomena by means of mathematical thinking - logically, quantitatively, and in harmony with experience”.

crappy sauce: quora

>> No.10363306

>>10363254
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1915SPAW.......844E

literally the second paragraph

>> No.10363428

>>10363291
how is that possible

he was German, not British so how did he know about Newton?

>> No.10363456

>>10363291
>not the least, the artist of exposition
Jej, not even hiding it.

>> No.10363498

>>10363428

What would prevent him from knowing about Newton?

>> No.10363508

>>10363428
Principia, one of the most important book in Europe, not only in Britain. If so many people in the world had access to Marx or to Darwin, why does it would be different with Newton, one of the most acclaimed persons?

>> No.10363664

Kind of hard to believe this is not a meme thread

>> No.10363797

I thought Newton wasn't really well known until the rise of the internet

>> No.10363810

>>10363254
i heard twitch.tv is a great website. why don't you visit it and stay there?

>> No.10363815

>>10363456
?

>> No.10364569

>>10363815
??

>> No.10364753

>>10363664

It is, it pops every once in a while.

>> No.10366743

>>10364753
this

>> No.10366745

>>10363254
>>10363268
Hahahaha.

>> No.10367083

>>10363428
Because this >>10363268
is wrong.

>> No.10367710

>>10366745
What’s funny?

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10368245

>>10363268
>continental european scientists
Sorry Nigel to give you a shock, but you may want to know that Newton wrote his findings in catholic latin.

>> No.10368595

He had a picture of Isaac Newton hanging about his desk.

>> No.10369955

>>10363254
>never heard of newton, one of the most important units in science.
please tell me this is bait

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>>10363254
It's true, he thought the unit of force was "new ton", since it's derived from mass.