I spent a most enjoyable evening with Sir Isaac Newton... at The Purple Rose Theater in downtown Chelsea Michigan.
"... paints a surprisingly human portrait of one of history's greatest thinkers. Isaac Newton may have taught mankind that gravity is a relatively weak force, but David MacGregor's Gravity holds an audience with a fierce intensity. ... the production is likely to surprise patrons as a wholly fresh, entirely different theatrical experience."
Jim thanks for that splendid review..So how does Sir Issac look these days..? I hope this comes to my area of upstate NY I will keep my eyes open...A thought; If the Royal Society had Purchased the Wheel I wonder if you would have been thrilled by Bessler instead..this can be rhetorical if you like
thanx...hope to see it
richard
where man meets science and god meets man never the twain shall meet...till god and man and science sit at gods great judgement seat..a tribute to Bessler....kipling I think
Hi Jim, thanks for sharing, I live out in the prairies, no theaters around here. Since you've been at this a lot longer than me I was wondering if you could recomend a good book on the subject of Newton. In my web reserch I read that some lost documents where discovered in the 1930's, but I can't seem to find anything else on it.
I'd like to further my knowledge of Newton
Any help will be appreciated
Leo
Beer is the cause and the solution of all my problems.
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation.
James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.
