Word: newtons
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...late John William Navin Sullivan was an able mathematician, a gifted and lucid interpreter of physics, a lover of music, a searcher for beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...
Sullivan's biography does not bring to light any new material about Newton, and he draws freely on other biographers. But Sullivan was fascinated by the human being which harbored such a magnificent mind, and from the available material he tried to draw, with fair success, a clearer picture of the 17th Century's greatest scientist as a person...
...Newton's greatest gifts were in mathematics and physics, but he was frequently bored with or indifferent to these branches of learning, and spent most of his time on alchemy, history, theology and mysticism. He edited geographical works, made telescopes and ear trumpets, dissected animal organs and studied cider-making. Newton was not stimulated by passing winds of criticism and discussion. In fact they annoyed him so much, by taking up his time and disturbing his quiet, that he often took refuge from the world by keeping his work to himself...
Henry Ritter, Jr. -- Miss Susan Railsback, Newton...
Albert E. Rust, Jr. -- Miss Martha Paul, Newton Highlands...