Newton
['njuːt(ə)n] or ['nutən]
Definition
(noun.) English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727).
(noun.) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes.
Edited by Darrell--From WordNet
Examples
- It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Thus Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered the law of gravitation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Nine years later Sir Isaac Newton, having studied Gregory’s plans, built the first reflecting telescope, which is now to be seen in the hall of the Royal Society in London. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- This discovery was made by Sir Isaac Newton, in 1675. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But there were dark lines in that beam of broken sunlight which Newton did not notice. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But Newton carries us into the eighteenth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Under similar circumstances, revive me the illustrious Newton. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Newton in the next century, with the prism, decomposed light, and in a darkened chamber reproduced all the colours and tints of the rainbow. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As early as 1680 Sir Isaac Newton proposed a steam carriage in which the propelling power was the reactionary discharge of a rearwardly directed jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Boyle, Otto Guericke, a burgomaster of Magdeburg, celebrated as the inventor of the airpump, Dr. Wall, and Sir Isaac Newton, added some facts. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Halley found that Newton had already determined that the form of the orbit would be an ellipse. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was only to ask Edith if she would tell Newton to bring down her shawls: perhaps you would go, Margaret dear? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- To Huygens Newton was indebted for the laws of centrifugal force. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Sir Isaac Newton had stated, and mathematical computations had proved his words, that a mechanical flying-machine was an impossibility. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Living in the Eighteenth Century, they thought in the images of Newton and Montesquieu. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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