Showing posts with label Isaac Newton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isaac Newton. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

She argued for Newton's physics

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     Here, by Voltaire , is a poem about mathematician/scientist Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) -- who explained Newton's physics but w...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Newton, Einstein, Gravity, Poetry

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     Recent discovery of gravitational waves has put Einstein (1878-1955) -- and even Newton (1643-1727) -- into recent news, and a visit ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Quoting Isaac Newton . . . . a "found" poem

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     I do not know what      I may appear to the world;      but to myself I seem to have been      only like a boy playing on the seash...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

from MIT Science-Poetry -- The Cal-Dif-Fluk Saga

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     Recently I have enjoyed browsing a voluminous online 19th century Science-Poetry collection ( Watchers of the Moon ) hosted by MIT, gat...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

A scientist writes of scientists

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     Wilkes-Barre poet Richard Aston is many-faceted -- a teacher, an engineer, a textbook author, a technical writer.  And Aston writes of...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Action at a distance

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One of the great things about writing this blog is the people who have -- out of the blue and across the miles -- sent along a great poem or...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

Poems of Calculus

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In her thoughtful poem " Calculus " mathematician-poet Sarah Glaz writes of sharing with her students some of their subject...