Teaduslik revolutsioon
As the Lucasian Chair of
Mathematics he was expected to lecture on a weekly basis, lectures which he frequently delivered to empty
classrooms. He embraced a number of academic interests but the ones which interested him most were
alchemy, theology, optics and mathematics. No field of study took precedence over another and he so he
devoted as much of his energy and intellect to alchemy as he did to theology and mathematics.
Like most scholars of the period, Newton had an amanuensis, a young student named Humphrey Newton,
who served him as an assistant who provided Newton with meals as well as transcriptions of his lecture
notes. Newton was an absentminded man. Stories of Newton's behavior are, of course, well known. Newton
was a deliberate [ kaaluv ] thinker, always hesitant to publish, always hesitant to move too quickly. A call to
dinner might have taken Newton an hour to act upon. If, on his way to sup, his fancy was struck by some
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