The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton: Alchemy, Prophecy, and the Search for Lost Knowledge by John Chambers

Author:John Chambers [Chambers, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620552049
Amazon: 1620552043
Barnesnoble: 1620552043
Goodreads: 34623087
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2018-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The Great Comet of 1680 never ceased to haunt Newton’s imagination. In the Principia Mathematica, he describes it for us.

The comet which appeared in the year 1680 was, in its perihelion [closest approach to the sun], less distant from the sun than by a sixth part [144,167 miles] of the sun’s diameter; and because of its extreme velocity in that proximity to the sun, and some density of the sun’s atmosphere, it must have suffered some resistance and retardation; and therefore, being attracted somewhat nearer to the sun in every revolution, will at last fall down upon the body of the sun.46

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