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His childhood was quite emotionally traumatic. I can imagine severe abandonment wounds given his situation. Not only would he have felt abandoned, when his mother quickly remarried after his father's death, he could actually see the distant steeple where her mother had to relocate after her marriage - source of affection and emotional connect just tantalizingly out of reach. That might explain his behaviour.
So, yet another thing I learned at school was bullshit. Pretty interesting to know!
Who would have guessed. Well, Laplace maybe.
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> High-strung, antisocial, egotistical, domineering, rage-filled. I think you are doing the man a disservice summarising him in such a way. His interest in unorthodox/heretical religion was at least since he was at university. He spent a significant amount of time on alchemy. Newton was the President of the Royal Society for over two decades, an MP for a similar amount of time which I would think required a lot of in…
And what gifts !
Imagine anyone doing Principia at an age of 24 (the book was published much later, but he had the results by then).
He would have been notable even if he had borrowed an established discipline of calculus to elaborate it's Physical consequences. No he had to develop it himself first and double check the results by translating that into geometry, into power series to be sure they are correct.
Einstein and Newton are often spoken of in the same breath, but by sheer body of work it seems a no-contest to me. Einstein had the luxury of being able to borrow tensor calculus, by then well formed. Perhaps the person who comes closest to Newton would be Archimedes, considering the time that Archimedes was doing his thing.
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His childhood was quite emotionally traumatic. I can imagine severe abandonment wounds given his situation. Not only would he have felt abandoned, when his mother quickly remarried after his father's death, he could actually see the distant steeple where her mother had to relocate after her marriage - source of affection and emotional connect just tantalizingly out of reach. That might explain his behaviour.
And to top it all off, that dang apple hit him on the head
I have to email hn@news.ycombinator.com about it. Those Apples are just too freaking expensive to throw around like that, Dang.
So it's a bunch of complicated splashy water that is excited by the moon moving past, and follows along at the same frequency - but it's not a simple wave travelling around the world, for various reasons. The earth itself is squashed like that with two bulges, but the water on the surface exhibits a more complex motion.
This explanation is so much better.
If people want to use big words they can say fluid dynamics, but yeah, it's a complex system with a big orbiting body pulling on it regularly, that gives the complex system rhythm but not order.
So, yet another thing I learned at school was bullshit. Pretty interesting to know!
The Bernoulli principle is one.