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Isaac Newton - Woolsthorpe Manor

djellison View Member Profile	May 6 2006, 01:33 PM Post #1
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	Not every day you get to do this - I'm posting from an outhouse of Newton's birthplace - Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. Yes - it has an apple orchard, and yes, it has his bedroom where he used a south facing window to split light into its spectrum. Sadly, you can't take pictures in the house, but I've got some nice ones from outside that I'll post when we get home in a few hours! Doug

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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Jun 16 2006, 09:29 PM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Next on NOVA: "Newton's Dark Secrets" http://www.pbs.org/nova/newton Broadcast: June 20, 2006 (Repeat) (NOVA airs Tuesdays on PBS at 8 p.m. Check your local listings as dates and times may vary.) -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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djellison Isaac Newton - Woolsthorpe Manor May 6 2006, 01:33 PM

djellison Here is a little mosaic of three frames from my ca... May 6 2006, 07:46 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (djellison @ May 6 2006, 08:46 PM) ... May 7 2006, 04:22 PM

djellison A few more images. First and second, labeled an... May 6 2006, 07:57 PM

Nix A nice trip indeed! Nico May 6 2006, 08:02 PM

Richard Trigaux Interesting images of an historical place, doug, t... May 7 2006, 07:05 AM

tty [quote name='Richard Trigaux' date='Ma... May 7 2006, 07:57 PM

djellison A final pic showing the 'far side' of the ... May 7 2006, 10:26 AM

djellison Well - wasn't sure if it was creative licence ... May 7 2006, 04:35 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (djellison @ May 7 2006, 05:35 PM) ... May 7 2006, 04:59 PM

dvandorn The exchange in question happened during Apollo 8.... May 7 2006, 05:16 PM

dvandorn OK -- just for the sake of completeness, the excha... May 7 2006, 05:38 PM

Bob Shaw Isn't it satisfying when mere facts back up on... May 7 2006, 06:10 PM

Richard Trigaux QUOTE (dvandorn @ May 7 2006, 05:38 PM) O... May 8 2006, 06:37 AM

Richard Trigaux QUOTE That can't be right, blast furnaces go b... May 8 2006, 07:21 AM

Bob Shaw Strangely, in the UK Sir Henry Bessemer is credite... May 8 2006, 09:00 PM

Richard Trigaux It seems that the guies at Buffon's forges wer... May 9 2006, 07:15 AM

ljk4-1 I am sure there are those who will respond with ... May 9 2006, 03:52 PM

djellison Superstition and things of that nature were HUGE d... May 9 2006, 04:17 PM

Bob Shaw For a fascinating, but dizzying, take on Newton an... May 9 2006, 05:48 PM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (djellison @ May 9 2006, 12:17 PM) ... May 9 2006, 06:01 PM

djellison No - I meant 5 fingers....i.e. a hand with 5 finge... May 9 2006, 06:40 PM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (djellison @ May 9 2006, 02:40 PM) ... May 9 2006, 06:43 PM

ljk4-1 Next on NOVA: "Newton's Dark Secrets... Jun 16 2006, 09:29 PM

DonPMitchell QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jun 16 2006, 02:29 P... Jun 16 2006, 09:45 PM

ljk4-1 At least Newton's "dirty laundry" is... Jun 17 2006, 03:03 PM

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