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5. Astronomy in the age of Newton
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5. Fractals, strange attractors, and dimension(s)
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6. Getting inside mathematics
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10. Centaurs and other animals
Principia appeared in 1726, edited by Henry Pemberton, although this added little to the 2nd.
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6. One of God’s chosen few
When Newton went to Trinity, he was introduced to a regime that placed great store by the study of writings of the Church Fathers, and of course, the Bible. At some point, probably in the early 1670s, he became a radical anti-trinitarian, holding that the conventional doctrine of the Holy Trinity was an incomprehensible and diabolical corruption introduced by perverters of scripture in the 4th century after Christ. Newton came to believe that the architect of orthodox Christianity, Athanasius, along with various monks, churchmen, and emperors of the Eastern and Western Empires, had polluted
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Introduction
The general advancement of mechanical science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a civil engineer; being the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal trade, as applied in the construction of roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals, river navigation, and docks, for internal intercourse and exchange; and in the construction of ports, harbours, moles, breakwaters, and light-houses, and in the art of navigation by artificial
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2. The age of gravity – time for work
