[ad_1] Isaac Newton’s inspiration for his law of universal gravitation came from an apple falling on his head. In 2010, a piece of the tree and an image of Newton were taken into orbit. The original tree still stands and produces apples. Most of us heard the story in elementary school: A young Isaac Newton […]
[ad_1] Isaac Asimov was a prolific science fiction and popular science writer, born in Belarus in 1919 or 1920. He wrote over 500 books, including the Foundation, Galactic Empire, and Robot series. Asimov was a member of Mensa and a vice president of the American Humanist Association. He earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Columbia […]
[ad_1] Sir Isaac Newton was born in England in 1643 and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. He developed the basis for calculation and a new formula for pi. Newton researched optics, invented the reflecting telescope, and designed an electrostatic generator. He shifted his attention to mechanics and astronomy and wrote The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, […]
