Western Civilization II / Unit 5 WC2 0411 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Newton's Other Work, and the Man
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The idea
Newton measured the relative mass of earth and water, split light into the spectrum, built a new telescope and wrote optics' founding paper. Cambridge professor at twenty-seven, later knighted, he presided over the Royal Society and published reluctantly.
In practice
The anchor's portrait: a humorless curmudgeon, chaste and disagreeable.
Where people slip
The anchor names the wrong monarch for the knighting; the course names none.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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