Chapter 51
What is the Royal Society?
It is said that this person could fit in a quart-sized mug when he was born
The poet who wrote this about Newton:
"Patient of contradiction as a child,
Affable, humble, diffident, and mild,
Such was Sir Isaac.
Who is William Cowper?
The ancient greek surgeon who had traveled about the Mediterranean with the armies of the emperor Nero.
Who is Dioscorides?
The person who decreed that the traditional Roman mile should be 5,280 feet instead of the 5,200 feet that it had been.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
The years that Isaac Newton lived.
What is 1642-1727?
This item was better to use in telescopes than a lens, and Newton was the first person to discover this.
What is a mirror?
The berry that was believed to be "good for ye stomach, being good taken in drink for the infirmities of the Thorax, coughs, and inflammation, tormina, and ye poysons of venomous beasts"
What is the juniper berry?
The person who invented the decimal system.
Who is Simon Stevin?
The college where Newton got his BA from.
What is Trinity College?
While the refracting telescope had been invented for a while, this kind of telescope was first invented by Newton and the first one was only 6 inches long.
What is a reflecting telescope?
The person who believed that just because something existed on the land, it meant that there was a similar creature living in the sea.
Who is Saint Augustine?
The inventor of logarithms
Who is John Napier?
Newton became a professor of what subject at Trinity College?
What is Mathematics?
The name of Newton's former assistant in teaching Mathematics.
Who is William Whiston?
The person who "urged physicians to return from later commentaries to the original text of Galen"
Who is Leonhart Fuchs?
The unit that is "one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth's meridian"
What is a meter?
The name of Newton's first contribution to the Royal Society.
What is his paper on the theory of colors
During the Age of Discovery, these popular stories began to be created.
What are fables?