John Collins describes meeting Isaac Newton in a letter to James Gregory dated 24 December 1670. This meeting must have occurred shortly after Newton had been appointed Lucasian Professor following Isaac Barrow’s resignation: Mercator pretends to sum a harmonic progression with ease … I never saw Mr Isaac Newton (who is younger than yourself) but […]
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Charles Bossut on Leibniz and Newton
Charles Bossut wrote A General History of Mathematics from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century which was published in 1802. It was translated into English by J Bonnycastle, Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, and the English translation was published in London in 1803. Over the years historians have greatly increased our understanding of past […]
Newton’s Arian beliefs
Newton became an Arian around 1672. First let us explain the Arian doctrine. It is a Christian heresy first proposed early in the 4th century by the Alexandrian Arius which, based on a study of the Bible, stated the belief that Jesus was more than man, but less than God. In other words Arians do […]
John Maynard Keynes: Newton, the Man
The Royal Society of London planned an event to celebrate the tercentenary of Isaac Newton‘s birth in 1942. However World War II made it essentially impossible and the celebrations did not take place until July 1946. Lectures were given by E N da Costa Andrade, H W Turnbull, Niels Bohr and Jacques Hadamard. John Maynard […]