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...Isaac Newton was a supergenius of science who, among other things, invented calculus and deduced the laws of gravity and optics. Sir Isaac, it turns out, also made mistakes. The University of Chicago announced last week that Robert Garisto, 23, a physics major, recently discovered in one of Newton's calculations an error that had gone undetected for three centuries...
...Garisto stumbled across the blunder while puzzling over some confusing numbers from Newton's 1687 masterpiece of physics, the Principia. Newton had derived a figure for the earth's mass based on his new theory that a single force -- gravity -- governed falling bodies on earth and the motion of planets around the sun. The calculation depended on the angle between two lines from the earth to the sun, but because the angle was not precisely known at the time, Newton used slightly different figures as he revised the Principia. Although he had settled on 10.5 sec., or about three-thousandths...
...JOHN GARISTO, O.S.F.S...
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