Quotations and Poetry

• Laws of Motion, in English and Latin
• Public statements on Mechanism
• Of Colours, Experiment 7
• The Prime of my age of Invention
• Preparation for reading Principia
• Of Gravity & Levity
• Miscellaneous Quotations

• From Pepys' Diary
• Boyle's ``Navigators'' image
• Karl Popper's philosophy of science

• Edmund Halley
  • Ode to Newton prefaced to Newton's Principia
• William Wordsworth
  • The Evangelist St John my patron was
  • Geometric Science and an independent world created out of pure intelligence
  • the grass had yielded to the steps of generations of illustrious men
• William Blake
  • The Atoms of Democritus

Just for fun: Newton Trivia

• Anagrams