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Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 13:52:32 2021 No.13643459 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13643470 >>13643514 >>13643521 >>13643558 >>13643575 >>13643863 >>13644383

These were the books in Newton's personal library at the time of his death.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 13:56:12 No.13643470 Report

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>>13643459
He knew the truth lies beyond the physical world.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 13:57:16 No.13643472 Report

Quoted By: >>13643487

Topic: Fantasy/Greco-Roman Paganism
Number of Books: 200 (100%)

These were the books in Pythagoras' personal library

Oh look, all of math is fake because of the literature that existed during lifetime of (choose genius)

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 13:58:28 No.13643478 Report

Quoted By: >>13643487

His choice of books depended on what was available at that time. Most printed books were religious or hippy medicine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:01:51 No.13643487 Report

Quoted By: >>13643494

>>13643472
>>13643478
>the books in a man's library don't reflect his intellectual interests

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:02:32 No.13643489 Report

Quoted By: >>13643493 >>13643574

Does that necessarily mean that is where his interests lie or is it also impacted by a potential finite amount of books of any one topic?

Maybe there's just more good books on Theology with sexy sequels whereas even with modern Mathematics most of it can be condensed into something well below 126. Theology tends to be fairly narrative and expansive in general whereas mathematics tends to favor simplicity and subtlety and "exercise left to the reader".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:03:55 No.13643493 Report

Quoted By: >>13643501

>>13643489
Why would you have 477 books about theology, unless you're VERY interested in theology? What kind of midwit nu-atheismoid cope is this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:04:11 No.13643494 Report

Quoted By: >>13643499

>>13643487
Maybe there literally only were like 130 good mathematics textbooks and the guy never managed to find those last 3.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:05:02 No.13643499 Report

Quoted By: >>13643515

>>13643494
This has no bearing on anything, schizo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:05:26 No.13643501 Report

Quoted By: >>13643513

>>13643493
I am not saying that he wasn't very interested in Theology. I am saying this is a bad data set to infer his relative interests in different topics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:08:14 No.13643513 Report

Quoted By: >>13643540

>>13643501
Show me who argued anything about infering his relative interests.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:08:22 No.13643514 Report

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>>13643459
Weren't books seen as investments in those days, like pokemon cards?
Anyway who cares what was in his library, I don't agree with every book in my bookshelf. Tell us what was quotes were in his commonplace book?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:08:31 No.13643515 Report

Quoted By: >>13643517

>>13643499
This is a science board and I am being incredulous. I am sorry I did not accept your hypothesis as law. It may be true. I don't really care either way. I'm just offering different perspectived and possibilities. Don't get so upset.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:09:36 No.13643517 Report

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>>13643515
Which hypothesis?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:12:07 No.13643521 Report

Quoted By: >>13643545

>>13643459
what those percents are represent?
out of 477 theology books 27.2% are theology books?
what the fuck is that table?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:19:43 No.13643540 Report

Quoted By: >>13643790

>>13643513
>argued
If you're here to argue just go to /pol/ you obnoxious cunt.

It's clear, especially since you accused me of being an atheist which I am not, what you were implying here, especially given the source of the original image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:22:08 No.13643545 Report

Quoted By: >>13643554 >>13643562

>>13643521
He had 477 theology books, which was 27.2% of all books he had.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:24:53 No.13643554 Report

Quoted By: >>13643563

>>13643545
Was the other 51.1% all miscellaneous?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:27:33 No.13643558 Report

Quoted By: >>13643584

>>13643459
>34.4% mathematics
makes sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:28:40 No.13643562 Report

Quoted By: >>13643573

>>13643545
There's about 900 books unaccounted for on the chart. Assuming the topics presented were the most abundant, the other topics most have at most 33. So that would mean there would be at least 30 or so other topics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:29:05 No.13643563 Report

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>>13643554
Manga

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:31:49 No.13643573 Report

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>>13643562
Probably just novels or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:32:14 No.13643574 Report

Quoted By: >>13643585

>>13643489
>Does that necessarily mean that is where his interests lie
Newton wrote more books about alchemy than he did of math/physics.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:32:43 No.13643575 Report

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>>13643459
Holy shit how is this board so ignorant about Newton's spiritual obsessions? Yes, he valued potential knowledge of God more highly than anything and spend most of his time trying to understand the universe in this light.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:36:10 No.13643584 Report

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>>13643558
>Mathematics (7.2%)
>34.4% mathematics
what

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 14:36:28 No.13643585 Report

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>>13643574
OK but how long or how dense were the two different types of books? Is it just easier to write alchemical books than it is to write mathematics books?

For instance, if you took my personal library you would be far, far off from my current main interest of study.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 15:27:47 No.13643790 Report

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>>13643540
Nice backpedaling, faggot. Go argue some more with the voices in your head.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 15:45:08 No.13643863 Report

Quoted By: >>13644353

>>13643459
Cope, you filthy atheists

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 18:05:12 No.13644353 Report

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>>13643863
that feel when newton was likely a schizo-poster from 1680's

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 18:16:39 No.13644383 Report

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>>13643459
Didn't they count the hentai stuff he kept under his bed or what?

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Anonymous Wed 15 Sep 2021 18:28:18 No.13644418 Report

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You only need 126 math, 52 physics and 33 astronomy books to advance the knowledge of humankind.

But not even 477 theology books can explain the world and it wouldn't matter if there was 1477 or 4477 - there's just more and more explanations, excuses, retconning etc. that never leads anywhere. Sad.

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