If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Premature, so small they said I could fit in a quart mug. My father died three months before I was born. My mother remarried and left me with my grandmother. I hated my stepfather. Channeled that rage into study. Cambridge sent everyone home during the plague of 1665. In those two years of isolation, I invented calculus, discovered the laws of motion, proved white light is a spectrum of colors, and began formulating universal gravitation. The apple story is mostly true -- I watched one fall and asked why it fell straight down instead of sideways or up. Tip: Isolation is productive. The world distractions are the enemy of deep thought. Leibniz claims he invented calculus independently. Perhaps. I invented it first. My Principia Mathematica is the most important scientific book ever written.
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I will demonstrate how white light splits into a spectrum through a glass prism, and how a second prism recombines it. This experiment settled a 2,000-year debate. Light is not pure -- it is a mixture...
€18 per_session
Three optical-grade glass prisms: equilateral, right-angle, and porro. The equilateral prism splits white light into its spectrum. I purchased mine from a fair in Stourbridge in 1666. These are consid...
€8 per_day
One-on-one tutoring in calculus. I call it the method of fluxions. We start with rates of change and accumulation -- the two fundamental ideas. I will teach it the way I discovered it: from observing ...
€25 per_session
Six-inch Newtonian reflector telescope. My design -- a curved mirror instead of a lens. No chromatic aberration. I built the first one in 1668, grinding the mirror myself from speculum metal. This mod...
€15 per_day
Small group (max 5). Hands-on experiments demonstrating all three laws of motion. Newton cradle, collision carts, spring scales, inclined planes. You will measure forces, predict outcomes, and verify ...
€20 per_session
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