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\|	\|	letterstonature.wordpress.com Neil deGrasse Tyson on Newton (Part 1) \| Letters to Nature	2.8 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	Warning: long post! Abstract: Neil deGrasse Tyson has argued that Isaac Newton's religious views stymied his science, preventing him from discovering what Laplace showed a century later - that theplanetary orbits are stable against perturbation. This conclusion is highly dubious. Newton did develop perturbation theory, and applied it to the moon's orbit. His lack of...	2.8 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	thonyc.wordpress.com From ???????? (ta physika) to physics - LII \| The Renaissance Mathematicus	4.0 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	Many people who write extensively about René Descartes concentrate almost exclusively on his philosophy and his hyped up, supposed role as the father of modern philosophy. However, he wrote extensively about a wide spectrum of scientific topics, including mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy. I have already written about his mathematics and his optics and will...	4.0 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	analog-antiquarian.net Chapter 1: The Legacy of the Ancients - The Analog Antiquarian	5.3 parsecs away Travel
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\|	\|	inq28.blogspot.com INQ28: A Series of INQ28s: What Imagism can teach us about the Shadow War	22.5 parsecs away Travel
\|		A SERIES OF INQ28S: WHAT IMAGISM CAN TEACH US ABOUT THE SHADOW WAR The early years of the Twentieth Century were a time of growing cities...	22.5 parsecs away Travel