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Archives for 2018

December 31, 2018 Leave a Comment

New Year’s Eve, 2018

Today is New Years Eve.As 2018 Recedes Into HistoryLet’s do a quick retrospective of it.by Jack Le Moine The top story of 2018

December 30, 2018 Leave a Comment

China’s Humiliations in the 1890’s

The fact is that the China of yesterday is farther away from the China of to-day than are the days of Washing ton from the United States of the

December 29, 2018 Leave a Comment

China Awakens 1905

This series has nine easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: An Ancient, Conservative Nation.IntroductionOne chief effect of the

December 28, 2018 1 Comment

Isaac Newton’s Legacy

Today's installment concludes Discovery of Gravity,our selection from Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir David

December 27, 2018 Leave a Comment

Newton Calculates Mass of Sun and Planets

If the peculiar genius of Newton has been displayed in his investigation of the law of universal gravitation, it shines with no less luster in the

December 26, 2018 Leave a Comment

Contribution of Kepler’s Laws

The Principia consists of three books. The first and second, which occupy three-fourths of the work, are entitled On the Motion of Bodies, and the

December 25, 2018 Leave a Comment

Christmas, 2018

Today is Christmas when we celebrate the joy of Christ's birth.Christmas, an essay from The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington

December 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

Principia Mathematics Produced

This manuscript, entitled Philosophic Naturalis Principia Mathematics and dedicated to the society, was presented by Dr. Vincent on April 28,

December 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Importance of Elliptical Orbits

But though Newton had thus discovered the true cause of all the celestial motions, he did not yet possess any evidence that such a force actually

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