19 7 / 2011
Scientific Side-Lights: 4. ABSENCE OF MIND— Newton and the egg.
I started blogging this book I found in a thrift store. If you like science and/or old things, you should totally follow it.
Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary affairs of life an absence of mind which has become proverbial. It is related that, one day, wishing to find the number of eeconds necessary for the boiling of an egg, he perceived, after waiting a minute,…
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