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Newton’s Trinity College Notebook is Online!
Cambridge Digital Library had made Newton’s exceptionally great works online.
Some times ago they added the Trinity College Notebook by Isaac Newton, which he used to teach in the college in 17th century.
Read More About the Project Here.
List of other works of Newton can be found at www.newton.ac.uk/newton.html.
From Newton to Einstein – Search for a Fundamental Frame of Reference
It was on account on Newton’s insistence as to the existence of a fundamental or absolute frame of reference, called absolute space, that the search for it was carried on. This search resulted in the discovery, or rather the invention, of that monstrosity of a medium, Luminiferous Ether, as the following brief account will show:
Maxwell clearly demonstrated, in the year 1864, the inter-relationship between electricity, magnetism and light when, from the known properties of electricity and magnetism, he formulated his celebrated theory of electromagnetic radiation and have the well know equations of electromagnetic field which bear his name and are identical with those that represent a wave phenomenon. He thus established the presence of electromagnetic waves in space, travelling with the speed of light. In other words, he proved that light is an electromagnetic wave. (more…)
