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Newton was a fascinating individual. While he's generally credited with being something like the father of modern science because of his application of scientific methodology, you have to appreciate that he didn't grow up in a world where this was the norm like we do today. Newton grew up in a world where a scientific approach was not the norm and the people around him had some mystical beliefs and so of course it's not surprising that Newton was influenced by the society in which he lived to also have some mystical beliefs.
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Origins
A small group of learned men, interested in the “experimental” or “new” philosophy as it was then called, began to meet informally from about 1645 at Gresham College in Bishopsgate to attend lectures and discuss their mutual interests. They called themselves “the invisible college.” Gresham had been founded in 1579 by a bequest of Sir Thomas Gresham, who laid down in his will the subjects to be taught. These were: divinity, medicine, geometry, astronomy, rhetoric and music.
Gresham had been appointed joint General Warden of Masons in 1567, so it is therefore not surprising that he sought to imbue his new college with the principles of Freemasonry.
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The Royal Society was founded by Freemasons, and dominated by Freemasons for the first two centuries of its existence. This raises the questions of why this was so, and what did the Masons hope to gain out of it? It is difficult to give a short answer.
Slightly more on topic.
Was Newton correct with his research into ancient history?
It appears it is in fact, not Newtons math, it belongs to Hally. So at this point there is no way to examine Newtons original math, as he burned most of his research. I am an investigator, not a Mathematician. You would have to have a Mathematician study Hally's conclusions.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
Slightly more on topic.
Was Newton correct with his research into ancient history?
Is his gravitational math accurate?
It appears it is in fact, not Newtons math, it belongs to Hally.
He did?
So at this point there is no way to examine Newtons original math, as he burned most of his research.
Previously I posted this
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
It appears it is in fact, not Newtons math, it belongs to Hally.
It appears that you, in fact, made that up.
That is not what your source says.
He did?
So at this point there is no way to examine Newtons original math, as he burned most of his research.
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In 1727, just weeks before his death, Isaac Newton burned volumes of his own manuscripts. What did those papers contain? After spending much of his life studying the ancient art of alchemy, the codes of the bible, and trying to predict the apocalypse, did he discover something the world was not prepared to face? Modern psychiatrists suggest that this act, along with other strange behaviors, was caused by a sickness that not only made him paranoid and obsessive, but also explained his genius.
So, it is entirely possible his original thesis was supplanted by Hally. After all, Hally paid for all the work involved. Money talks.......... Newton died in distress.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
So, it is entirely possible his original thesis was supplanted by Hally. After all, Hally paid for all the work involved. Money talks.......... Newton died in distress.
There are letters to Halley. There are notebooks specific to the Principia. Newton wrote it, Halley provided criticism during the process.
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Edmond (or Edmund) Halley was an English scientist who is best known for predicting the orbit of the comet that was later named after him. Though he is remembered foremost as an astronomer, he also made significant discoveries in the fields of geophysics, mathematics, meteorology and physics.
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Three hundred years ago in 1692, an article by Edmond Halley proposed that the Earth was hollow.(1) Its theory was based on the value of lunar relative density given by Isaac Newton. The first edition of Newton’s Principia (1687) found that “... the mass of the Moon will be to the mass of the Earth as 1 to 26, approximately”, citing the relative densities of Moon to Earth as 9 to 5.(2) This value of lunar relative mass was in excess by a factor of three, as the true mass ratio is 1:81. Arguably the most significant error in the Principia’s Book III, it left an ultra-dense Moon circling our Earth.(3) Edmond Halley simply invoked these figures: “Sir Isaac Newton has demonstrated the Moon to be more solid than our Earth, as 9 to 5; why may we not then suppose four ninths of our globe to be cavity?”(4) It is remarkable that so erroneous a figure, having such unlikely implications, could be thus presented without need for further justification. Halley’s theory appeared as the first significant deduction to be drawn from the Principia.
Yes. He was wrong, of course, but he derived that idea from Newton's work. As you pointed out. Newton was wrong about that, but not about how gravity behaves.
If there were anyone alive at the time who understood more than Newton, it was Hally. Hally also proposed that the earth was hollow, go figure.
I'm going to do what our beloved secret society has been doing for quite some time. Taking things out of context.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
Yes. He was wrong, of course, but he derived that idea from Newton's work. As you pointed out. Newton was wrong about that, but not about how gravity behaves.
If there were anyone alive at the time who understood more than Newton, it was Hally. Hally also proposed that the earth was hollow, go figure.
Newton was wrong
He was wrong, obviously, correct? What else might he have also gotten a little bit, wrong??
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: All Seeing Eye
He was wrong, obviously, correct? What else might he have also gotten a little bit, wrong??
Not the laws of gravitation. Nor the laws of motion. They work very well.
That all depends on who they are working for, and for what reason. I'm not speaking of the mundane application of gravity. I'm speaking of the applications, that could be.
They work very well
The question is, are they as accurate as they could be???
Is that when the expanding Earth is going to pop like a balloon?
Personally, if I live to the year 2060, Ill be 104 years old. It just wont matter to me one little bit, one way, or the other...
THE HOLLOW WORLD OF EDMOND HALLEY
Halley had been much involved with the production of the Principia, and it now seemed to provide him with a key. Its estimate of the Earth/Moon mass ratio suggested to him that the Earth was hollow. How else could that ratio be explained? The germ of the idea may have dawned upon him while reading Burnet’s Sacred theory of the Earth which had appeared (in Latin) in 1681. This assigned hollow cavities to the Earth, catacombs and subterranean grottoes, but did so in a traditional mode in accord with classic myth and lore (20). The tenor of Burnet’s vision was, as Schaffer has observed (21), in stark contrast to that of Halley.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods
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The Hawaiian Islands were formed by such a hot spot occurring in the middle of the Pacific Plate. While the hot spot itself is fixed, the plate is moving. So, as the plate moved over the hot spot, the string of islands that make up the Hawaiian Island chain were formed.
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“Sir Isaac Newton has demonstrated the Moon to be more solid than our Earth, as 9 to 5; why may we not then suppose four ninths of our globe to be cavity?”
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From the study of magnetic compass variations, Halley by 1683 had reached the quite original conclusion that the Earth possessed four magnetic poles (11). He described in the Philosophical transactions of that year how two of these poles were located in the “Southern ocean” and the two northern ones were in the Bering Strait and Spitzbergen (12). However he could not account for the existence of multiple poles, nor their gradual displacement with time, acknowledging that the latter depended on “secrets as yet utterly unknown to Mankind” (13).
So, do you think it's a good idea to abandon what we've learned in the last 2000 years and go back to believing what the Greeks believed?
originally posted by: All Seeing Eye
But I will only leave one small bit of Ancient evidence, and what the Ancient Greeks thought of the idea of a hollow earth.
Our entire space program wouldn't work if Aristotle was right. We rely on our spacecraft to keep moving without anything pushing them. According to Aristotle they'd stop without anything pushing them, which we find doesn't happen, so while the ancient Greeks were impressive for their time, they had some basic things completely wrong.
Aristotle taught that objects have to be pushed along in their sideways motion to maintain that motion. When the force runs out, the objects stop.
So, do you think it's a good idea to abandon what we've learned in the last 2000 years and go back to believing what the Greeks believed?
In which context did he make this observation, under the influence of the force known as gravity, or outside of the force known as gravity. The context would make a difference in my answer.
Aristotle taught that objects have to be pushed along in their sideways motion to maintain that motion. When the force runs out, the objects stop.