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
Archives for December 2018
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
China Awakens 1905
This series has nine easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: An Ancient, Conservative Nation.IntroductionOne chief effect of the
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
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
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
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
Principia Mathematics Produced
This manuscript, entitled Philosophic Naturalis Principia Mathematics and dedicated to the society, was presented by Dr. Vincent on April 28,
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