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- From: francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: A holiday reading
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 17:16:59 GMT
- Organization: Stanford Exploration Project
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- Mark Taranto writes:
-
- There is more than one man who changed this world, and who's
- birthday is celebrated on December 25. I just spent some time
- reading selections from the work of Isaac Newton, who was born
- 350 years ago, today.
-
- Perhaps he can be remembered as well.
-
- Not difficult to forget. I am still pissed of with Izzy 'cos he did not
- see that mass density, in an elastic world, is a second-order tensor and
- not a scalar. On the other hand, he did leave me something to write about
- in the columns of GJI, the Green 'Un from the Royal Astronomical Society.
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- RABworm
-