Sunday 14 September 2008
Isaac Newton and the Defeat of Doubt
Isaac Newton is famous for discovering that the apparently unrelenting consistency with which things fell downwards from above, even if having been propelled from below, was a result of more than mere chance, and so was a set of pracical affairs set to continue beyond the horizons of all conjectured human futurity. This certainty in the ongoing downward pull of objects was of great help to man's progression as a rational animal on this earth, enabling him to plan ahead and to act in the sure knowledge that the earth was the natural and inevitable habitation for earthly matter, and apples and the like could continue to be harvested without fear of their escape into the further reaches of unattainable space. A great period of uncertainty had closed.
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Those were hard times for ball games, those olden days. You never had any confidence in the behaviour of the ball. Then Isaac came along and we've been happily 'lobbing', 'chipping' and 'drop-kicking' every since. God bless you Isaac.
They knew the earth was round in 1260 AD.
True that, and scandalously rarely mentioned, about Isaac's central role in the development of ball games.
i heard fernando torres is related to isaac newton - now i see it
That Torres is something special.
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