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- Title
Celestial bodies and urinary stones: Isaac Newton (1641--1727)--health and urological problems.
- Authors
Ostad, Edward; Wise, Gilbert J.
- Abstract
This article profiles Isaac Newton, a remarkable physicist and mathematician of the 17th century. He was small for his age, lonely and abandoned. He attended the local school, where he studied the Bible and arithmetic tables. At an early age he became aware of changing shadows in relation to the sun's positions and time. In the 1670s Newton became a Fellow of The Royal Society, based on his work in developing the reflecting telescope. The core of Newton's contribution was concerned with the physics of colour; an ancient theory extending back at least to Aristotle held that a certain class of colour phenomena, e.g. the rainbow, arose from the modification of light, which appears white in its pristine form.
- Subjects
MATHEMATICS; REFLECTING telescopes; MATHEMATICIANS; SCIENTISTS; NEWTON, Isaac, 1642-1727; PHYSICISTS
- Publication
BJU International, 2005, Vol 95, Issue 1, p24
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05242.x