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  • And although once the name of Isaac Newton may have raised a few eyebrows, most people in this field recognize that besides his pioneering work in mathematics and physics he was a dedicated scholar of unconventional subjects, including alchemy.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • And although once the name of Isaac Newton may have raised a few eyebrows, most people in this field recognize that besides his pioneering work in mathematics and physics he was a dedicated scholar of unconventional subjects, including alchemy.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • And although once the name of Isaac Newton may have raised a few eyebrows, most people in this field recognize that besides his pioneering work in mathematics and physics he was a dedicated scholar of unconventional subjects, including alchemy.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • To paraphrase Isaac Newton, if Allen seems as if he sees less than other people, it is because giants stood on his shoulders.

    Midterm Roundup 2009

  • Now some of the more extreme science-bashers have modified their views: the feminist critic who called Isaac Newton's Principia "a rape manual" now regrets her choice of words.

    The Science Wars 2008

  • To paraphrase Isaac Newton, each generation sees a little farther because it stands on the shoulders of its predecessors.

    Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 8 2007

  • I am confident that I will soon be known as the Isaac Newton of Geology, as soon as the geologistic cabal of atheistic Tectonites are defeated in local school districts across the country.

    Intelligent Design Theories - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • "I think they said the ship was called the Isaac Newton, was loaded with barrels of coal-oil, and bound for Holland."

    Elsie at Nantucket Martha Finley 1868

  • Einstein was never a leader despite the fact that he had INFLUENCED the theory of modern Physics, you forget to name Isaac Newton without him no Einstein but was he a leader?

    unknown title 2009

  • The puritan movement was threatening to all academic achievement of that time, with intellects such as Isaac Newton being constrained in their publication of their work which in Newtons case had a large Alchemical content.

    [sonus] understanding issues: part 7 2009

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  • "Not until the 1660s did Isaac Newton, the brilliant son of an illiterate Lincolnshire farmer, begin to work out the true relationship between light and color."

    Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 151, see also following pages.

    What I'd like to know is, why do people question whether William Shakespeare's works were truly written by William Shakespeare, and not question whether Isaac Newton's works were really written by Isaac Newton? The argument that Shakespeare, given his upbringing and education, could not possibly have come up with anything so brilliant as his own plays, is so elitist and ignorant about human capability as to be maddening, while there's no such--at least not as widely publicized--questioning of how Isaac Newton could have been a genius given *his* upbringing. I actually stopped reading this book and sat there stewing on this for several minutes. Unfortunately I don't even want to perform the most cursory of searches, lest I find that some of my fellow humans really are the kind of creatures who would go looking for proof that a person can't rise above the circumstances of their birth and early years.

    Anyway. Newton and color! Here's more:

    "Having revolutionized the study of colored light, Newton turned his attention to colored objects. ... He hypothesized that the color of an object depended on the selective absorption and reflection of different parts of the spectrum; that is, an object that absorbed orange light but rejected blue light would appear blue to our eyes. This hypothesis was advanced for its time, but it was only partially correct, and Newton's physical explanation for why such differential absorption and reflection might occur was completely off base.

    "Not until the nineteenth century did scientist begin to grasp how a range of light effects--such as diffraction, interference, reflection, and dispersive refraction--might combine to create color in objects, and only in relatively modern times have scientists come to understand many of the complicated chemical and atomic factors behind such phenomena. A green leaf, for example, is green because it produces chlorophyll, the molecular structure of which absorbs incoming red and violet rays and reflects the green ones. Many green birds, however, have only yellow pigments in their feathers; we see them as green because the feathers' physical structure produces light effects called thin layer interference and scattering, which adds blue to the yellow."

    (Same book, p. 152)

    October 6, 2017