Jed Rothwell wrote > > >Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Newtonian physics is generally not a part of everyday life experiences. It >is an abstract generalisation deduced from some idealised situations. > > >Good point. That's why these physics were not discovered until Newton, and why >it took a genius like Newton to discover them. > He provided the mechanical philosophy of nature with its first comprehensive mathematical formulation.
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." -- Issac Newton Harry
