Anecdotes and Essays about Newton
- The Apple
- Newton's Knighthood: Science or Politics?
- Newton's Libraries
- Two Falling Globes experiment*
- ``On the shoulders of Giants''
- Cats, dogs and other animals
Other Anecdotes
Perhaps because of his status as an eighteenth century icon of Reason so soon after his death, Newton generated a very large number of anecdotes, some more of which are listed below.- South Sea Bubble, see Newton: the Man
- Annus Mirabilis
- Absent mindedness
- No calculus in Principia?
- Nervous breakdowns, paper fires and heavy metal poisoning
- Alleged inability to draw up an account ledger
- Birth on Christmas Day and Galileo's death that year
- ``Speech'' in Parliament
- Visit of Peter the Great
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