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Royal Society Releases Historic Science Papers

Posted by kdawson on from the bayes-essay-on-chance-ftw dept.

krou writes "To celebrate its 350th anniversary, the Royal Society has released a number of historic science papers and made them available online via its Trailblazing website. Among the papers are Benjamin Franklin's notes on his kite-flying experiment, a paper on black holes co-written by Professor Stephen Hawking, manuscripts from Sir Isaac Newton showing 'that white light is a mixture of other colours,' and a few other interesting details such as 'a gruesome account of a 17th century blood transfusion.'"

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  1. Re:Ceaseless quest... by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    For what? More funding based on dubious data?

    Yeah, that rotten Isaac Newton admitted in an email that he drew the apple larger than scale to make the diagram easier to read. Blasted hippy-haired liberal!
       

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  2. Re:Ceaseless quest... by leoc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haven't you heard? Newtonian physics has been discredited after someone hacked into his quill and pen set.

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  3. 1834 End of Spanish Inquisition by NoYob · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was going through the timeline and at 1830 it shows a big white dot with a pop-up "Spanish Inquisition Ends".

    I never saw that coming.

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  4. F v. S ? by eepok · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, now I have to find out why, in the Benjamin Franklin text, all but the last S's in any word look like lower-case Fs.