Eclectic
Affinities
“Isaac Newton: Flaws
of Gravity”
A commentary on Sir Isaac Newton after reading of Peter
Ackroyd’s biography of Newton. After commenting on all of the great minds that
have worked at Cambridge (Charles Darwin, Bertrand Russell, Watson & Crick,
Stephen Hawking), Hitchens quotes freely from Ackroyd’s book to draw a picture
of Newton as the greatest mind of them all as well as a crackpot and religious
bigot who believed in alchemy and that all Catholics were the “offspring of the
Whore of Rome.” A great elitist, he wrote his Principia Mathematica in Latin, “ boasting that this would make it
even less accessible to the vulgar.” Outstanding.
Check out Bertrand Russell in this graphic novel, Logicomix, http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-Search-Truth-Apostolos-Doxiadis/dp/1596914521
New learning: Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th
anniversary of the death of Galileo.
New word: regnant = reigning or ruling.
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