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Isaac Newton's Notes Digitized
First time accepted submitter nhstar writes with an excerpt from an article in the Register: "If you're looking for a bit of light reading this holiday season, Cambridge University is here to help: they've digitized and made available online over 4,000 pages of the pioneering scientist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton's most important works. 'Anyone, wherever they are, can see at the click of a mouse how Newton worked and how he went about developing his theories and experiments,' Cambridge University Library's digitization manager Grant Young told the BBC."
Being able to develop theories, without worrying some lawyer will come pounding on your door, claiming you are infringing this copyright or that patent.
Dear Sir, it would pleasure us if you would cease and desist with observations on gravity as our client holds the patent on Apples Falling From Trees And Striking A Person Upon The Head. Should you continue with in your present direction we shall have you summoned to the King's Court and sort you out. Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, LLP
Of course they had their battles, who stole an idea from who, but it was usually sorted out with a lot of yelling and smearing of reputation, rather than getting solicitors involved.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Maybe it was a pun, given that one of the works was all about optics. ;)
Well, it depends on whether you view light as a wave or a particle.
May the Maths Be with you!
You're more likely to see a recipe for Apple Pie...
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Yeah, well, he had plenty of time to learn Latin since he didn't have to take Calculus in high school!
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It's not fucking funny because fucking Newton did not invent fucking calculus. FUCK YOU!
Regards,
G. Leibniz