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Newton's influence on modern science. I've googled for a while now
and all I can find is actually what he did, not why it has influenced
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could help me out?

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Inez wrote:
Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science. I've googled for a while now
and all I can find is actually what he did, not why it has influenced
modern science or how it has. Could anyone link me to something that
could help me out?

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www.google.com "isaac newton" 613,000 hits

Bound to be a useful one in there somewhere. Read about his
contributions toward gravity and mechanics.

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Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science. I've googled for a while now
and all I can find is actually what he did, not why it has influenced
modern science or how it has. Could anyone link me to something that
could help me out?

Thanks so much.

http://members.tripod.com/~gravitee/
Leads to (influences)
http://www.scaled.com/projects/tierone/


Androcles

Inez wrote:

Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science. I've googled for a while now
and all I can find is actually what he did, not why it has influenced
modern science or how it has. Could anyone link me to something that
could help me out?

1) Galileo made science empirical. Newton made science
mathematical.
2) Google
newton "influence on science" 725 hits
3) One posits that if you are not smart enough to ask the question,
you are not smart enough to understand the answer.

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Inez wrote:

Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science. I've googled for a while now
and all I can find is actually what he did, not why it has influenced
modern science or how it has. Could anyone link me to something that
could help me out?

Isaac Newton invented mathematically based theoretical physics. It is
the physics we know today, even if the laws and the details have
changed. Newton invented the approach.

Bob Kolker

Inez wrote:
Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science.

Isaac Newton: the gifted genius

Review: October 2001

Newton's Gift
David Berlinski
2001 Gerald Duckworth & Co./Free Press
228pp

It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man
whom David Berlinski calls "the largest figure in the history of
Western science" and the author of "the greatest of scientific
theories". Indeed, there have been many biographies of Isaac Newton
over the last two decades. What is important for Berlinski, however,
are not the details of Newton's life - fascinating though these may be
- but the understanding of his "gift". By this he means Newton's
revelation of the "book of Nature" and his unlocking of the "system of
the world". The biographical details only become important to
Berlinski when the singularities of Newton's personality contribute in
some way to the equal singularity of his work in physics.

Cosmic contribution

Of course, the key moments of Newton's life are all here. Berlinski
describes the "marvellous year" of 1665-1666, in which Newton laid the
foundation for his work in mathematics, mechanics and optics. He notes
Newton's discovery that the Earth's gravitation extends to the Moon,
and describes his invention of the reflecting telescope and the
subsequent controversy over his optics. He covers the correspondence
with Hooke, which resulted in Newton exchanging a balance of forces
for a single attractive force, and the dramatic growth of the
Principia following the visit of Halley to Cambridge in 1684.

Berlinski is not always correct in his statements. He says that Newton
made no mathematical discoveries after the invention of calculus. He
occasionally accepts the truth of a dubious anecdote, like the one
about the dog Diamond accidentally causing the fire that consumed
Newton's optical papers. He also makes one or two unsupported
statements, such as Newton having Hooke's portrait destroyed. However,
his graphic descriptions of events have an authentic feel, and give
the impression that the author understands the period as well as the
science. Where necessary, he fills in detail imaginatively and with
credibility.

He is also very convincing on the character analysis. His Newton was
secret and suspicious, hypersensitive, an indifferent speaker,
incapable of intellectual generosity, but possessed of many
intellectual and organizational gifts, and lacking only in the
capacity and desire to analyse himself. A few incidents help to soften
the image of unrelieved austerity. Newton, for example, is shown to
have displayed a kind of "alien tenderness" in dealing with his niece,
Catherine, during her affair with his close friend, the statesman and
politician Lord Halifax. However, the real point of the book is
elsewhere.

The key point in Berlinski's analysis is the sheer strangeness of
Newton's ideas, even in the prior context of the discoveries of such
predecessors as Kepler and Galileo. A ruthless simplifier and abstract
thinker, Newton had the remarkable ability of striking at the
fundamentals. His laws of physics have a transcendent quality that
cannot be fully explained in terms of the world's matter. By extending
gravity to the Moon, he destroyed the prospects of a mechanical
philosophy of nature, such as Descartes had dreamed of.

There was, however, a great price in intellectual coherence in
Newton's decision to create accessible solutions, while leaving
problems that could not be solved for the future. Counterintuitive and
intellectually daring, his invocation of forces that acted at a
distance served to fill space with mystery.

Berlinski provides fascinating discussions of Newton's "five" laws of
motion, which include his "law" of absolute space and time. The fact
that Newton was able to develop an appropriate mathematics in calculus
(as also did his contemporary Leibniz) showed that there was an
element of fortune in his timing. This is emphasized by the parallel
story of his unsuccessful pursuit of alchemy. The alchemists were on
the right track, but, through bad luck, they guessed wrong and failed
to find equivalent chemical laws.

Despite the importance of mathematics in his work, Newton was not in
his heart a pure mathematician. He was essentially a physicist and was
already thinking beyond calculus in the act of creating it. After he
had created his great masterwork, the Principia, he saw no point in
developing further deductive results in what we now call Newtonian
mechanics.

Newton's abstract vision needed no pictures, as were required by a
mechanistic philosopher such as Hooke. Yet Berlinski asserts, in a
different sense, that Newton was a "painter", with each diagram in the
Principia having a secret to be revealed. This was not always easily
done. For example, an anecdote tells how an initially confident
Richard Feynman got into a hopeless tangle while trying to explain a
diagram to a group of freshman students. Indeed, the only creator whom
the author can find to compare to Newton and the Principia is another
painter - Michelangelo - at work on the Sistine Chapel. Not even
Einstein is of equal standing.

Berlinski himself variously uses words, symbols and pictures. He takes
on the difficult task of explaining mathematical ideas to readers, who
he clearly hopes will include some who are without mathematical
training. Co-ordinate geometry, Cartesian axes, calculus, vectors and
differential equations are explained in terms of their meaning and
significance, though there is also a technical appendix.
Mathematically trained people will find a wealth of metaphors here to
use in their own explanations.

Berlinski does not try - like some authors of popular books on physics
- to make science sound mysterious. But he does demonstrate
convincingly that Newtonian mechanics is a great deal more than a set
of routine procedures. For Berlinski, there is no mystery about the
way in which we use Newton's theory. The mystery is in what it is.

The urgency of such books is in the desire to find a fully unified
theory of physics, and to comprehend what we have already achieved on
the road to it. All the great theories are singular, like Newton's.
Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, Einstein's relativity and quantum
mechanics are the only comparable ones. Whatever form the ultimate
unified theory may take, its origin will be in the scientific style
created by Newton.

Berlinski's book is thought-provoking and stimulating, and a
thoroughly enjoyable read. His prose is shot through with brilliant
images. It is nowhere more remarkable than in the vivid metaphors he
conjures up to explain fundamental aspects of mathematics.

Ref: http://physicsweb.org/articles/review/14/10/3

Sam Wormley wrote:
Inez wrote:

Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science.


Isaac Newton: the gifted genius

Review: October 2001

Newton's Gift
David Berlinski
2001 Gerald Duckworth & Co./Free Press
228pp

It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man
whom David Berlinski calls "the largest figure in the history of
Western science" and the author of "the greatest of scientific
theories". Indeed, there have been many biographies of Isaac Newton
over the last two decades. What is important for Berlinski, however,
are not the details of Newton's life - fascinating though these may be
- but the understanding of his "gift". By this he means Newton's
revelation of the "book of Nature" and his unlocking of the "system of
the world". The biographical details only become important to
Berlinski when the singularities of Newton's personality contribute in
some way to the equal singularity of his work in physics.

Cosmic contribution

Of course, the key moments of Newton's life are all here. Berlinski
describes the "marvellous year" of 1665-1666, in which Newton laid the
foundation for his work in mathematics, mechanics and optics. He notes
Newton's discovery that the Earth's gravitation extends to the Moon,
and describes his invention of the reflecting telescope and the
subsequent controversy over his optics. He covers the correspondence
with Hooke, which resulted in Newton exchanging a balance of forces
for a single attractive force, and the dramatic growth of the
Principia following the visit of Halley to Cambridge in 1684.

Berlinski is not always correct in his statements. He says that Newton
made no mathematical discoveries after the invention of calculus. He
occasionally accepts the truth of a dubious anecdote, like the one
about the dog Diamond accidentally causing the fire that consumed
Newton's optical papers. He also makes one or two unsupported
statements, such as Newton having Hooke's portrait destroyed. However,
his graphic descriptions of events have an authentic feel, and give
the impression that the author understands the period as well as the
science. Where necessary, he fills in detail imaginatively and with
credibility.

He is also very convincing on the character analysis. His Newton was
secret and suspicious, hypersensitive, an indifferent speaker,
incapable of intellectual generosity, but possessed of many
intellectual and organizational gifts, and lacking only in the
capacity and desire to analyse himself. A few incidents help to soften
the image of unrelieved austerity. Newton, for example, is shown to
have displayed a kind of "alien tenderness" in dealing with his niece,
Catherine, during her affair with his close friend, the statesman and
politician Lord Halifax. However, the real point of the book is
elsewhere.

The key point in Berlinski's analysis is the sheer strangeness of
Newton's ideas, even in the prior context of the discoveries of such
predecessors as Kepler and Galileo. A ruthless simplifier and abstract
thinker, Newton had the remarkable ability of striking at the
fundamentals. His laws of physics have a transcendent quality that
cannot be fully explained in terms of the world's matter. By extending
gravity to the Moon, he destroyed the prospects of a mechanical
philosophy of nature, such as Descartes had dreamed of.

There was, however, a great price in intellectual coherence in
Newton's decision to create accessible solutions, while leaving
problems that could not be solved for the future. Counterintuitive and
intellectually daring, his invocation of forces that acted at a
distance served to fill space with mystery.

Berlinski provides fascinating discussions of Newton's "five" laws of
motion, which include his "law" of absolute space and time. The fact
that Newton was able to develop an appropriate mathematics in calculus
(as also did his contemporary Leibniz) showed that there was an
element of fortune in his timing. This is emphasized by the parallel
story of his unsuccessful pursuit of alchemy. The alchemists were on
the right track, but, through bad luck, they guessed wrong and failed
to find equivalent chemical laws.

Despite the importance of mathematics in his work, Newton was not in
his heart a pure mathematician. He was essentially a physicist and was
already thinking beyond calculus in the act of creating it. After he
had created his great masterwork, the Principia, he saw no point in
developing further deductive results in what we now call Newtonian
mechanics.

Newton's abstract vision needed no pictures, as were required by a
mechanistic philosopher such as Hooke. Yet Berlinski asserts, in a
different sense, that Newton was a "painter", with each diagram in the
Principia having a secret to be revealed. This was not always easily
done. For example, an anecdote tells how an initially confident
Richard Feynman got into a hopeless tangle while trying to explain a
diagram to a group of freshman students. Indeed, the only creator whom
the author can find to compare to Newton and the Principia is another
painter - Michelangelo - at work on the Sistine Chapel. Not even
Einstein is of equal standing.

Berlinski himself variously uses words, symbols and pictures. He takes
on the difficult task of explaining mathematical ideas to readers, who
he clearly hopes will include some who are without mathematical
training. Co-ordinate geometry, Cartesian axes, calculus, vectors and
differential equations are explained in terms of their meaning and
significance, though there is also a technical appendix.
Mathematically trained people will find a wealth of metaphors here to
use in their own explanations.

Berlinski does not try - like some authors of popular books on physics
- to make science sound mysterious. But he does demonstrate
convincingly that Newtonian mechanics is a great deal more than a set
of routine procedures. For Berlinski, there is no mystery about the
way in which we use Newton's theory. The mystery is in what it is.

The urgency of such books is in the desire to find a fully unified
theory of physics, and to comprehend what we have already achieved on
the road to it. All the great theories are singular, like Newton's.
Maxwell's electromagnetic theory, Einstein's relativity and quantum
mechanics are the only comparable ones. Whatever form the ultimate
unified theory may take, its origin will be in the scientific style
created by Newton.

Berlinski's book is thought-provoking and stimulating, and a
thoroughly enjoyable read. His prose is shot through with brilliant
images. It is nowhere more remarkable than in the vivid metaphors he
conjures up to explain fundamental aspects of mathematics.

If you are referring to the laws of motion I doubt that any one has
tried to sum up the influence since it is so much THE foundation of any
machine design.
With out those three items we could not walk across the floor.
Secondly I am finding very few people who understand them.
They seem to get the point on the math but miss the reality of it.
Take, for example the question of "is the class half full or half empty".
Newton would say it is full, full half with water and half air.
Or take the first "A body at rest remains at rest unless it is acted on
by an external force".
Newton would say it means if you want to move something you need to have
a separate object to hit it with (or attract) it.
What I am saying is the volume is to big (and to elementary )to deal with.



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Newton's influence on modern science. I've googled for a while now
and all I can find is actually what he did, not why it has influenced
modern science or how it has. Could anyone link me to something that
could help me out?

Thanks so much.
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Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science.

One word: CALCULUS!
He also made huge inpact on physisc, including laws of motion, gravitation,
optics, astronomy, etc. But his biggest contribution that made almost all of
engineering and physics possible is due to his ideas (shared with Leibnitz)
of differential and integral calculus.

"oðin" wrote in message ...
Can anyone help me out here? I'm trying to get some help with Isaac
Newton's influence on modern science.

One word: CALCULUS!
He also made huge inpact on physisc, including laws of motion, gravitation,
optics, astronomy, etc. But his biggest contribution that made almost all of
engineering and physics possible is due to his ideas (shared with Leibnitz)
of differential and integral calculus.

Isaac Newton made huge impact on physics. That is so damn right only
in negative sense. That Newton - dude made the greatest wrong turn in
science in general in physics in particular because he ruined
Archimedes' physics of the lever. Newton's mechanics is Archimedes'
physics of the lever only twisted as if it was your nose when you look
in a bumpy mirror. It is not "action equals minus reaction" but
"greater but closer reaction force annihilates reciprocally with
smaller but more distant action force". Not only that action is not
equal with reaction by intensity but those two forces are deeply
related with the distances from the equilibrium point that they act
upon. Force is potential distance from the equilibrim point.

As to the original poster, be advised to look for Archimedes' work
instead of Newton's work. I have my own research done on Archimedes'
lever. It is available at: www.geocities.com/dedaNoe