The Most Important Science Book Ever Written

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  @Natibe_ · 3 years ago

  Showing Adam the most important book in science, then immediately turning around and, without moving, handing him the second most important book has got to be the biggest flex I’ve ever heard of lmao

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  @timparsons3565 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Archivist: &quot;We keep meaning to make a better box for Newton&apos;s death mask, but we just haven&apos;t gotten around to it.&quot;<br>Adam (levitating, eyes glowing): &quot;I have a particular set of skills...&quot;<br><br>Edit: Great to see that a couple dozen others had the same idea as me haha

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  @transtremm · 3 years ago

  After writing the, &quot;Principia&quot; Newton had to translate it into Latin in order for it to be published by the Royal Society. &nbsp;Then when members of the Royal Society read the book, the reader had to translate it back into English in order to understand it. &nbsp; Crazy!!!

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  @thomascaldwell184 · 3 years ago

  Man, Adam has built the most AMAZING life. He gets to see and be in the most amazing places. Well earned.

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  @AutomaticMark · 3 years ago

  Old Adam meets young Adam.

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  @christophermarin9125 · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t believe that a death mask of Isaac Newton survives to today. Thank you for sharing that. I have a bachelor&apos;s degree in physics, but this really drives home that he was a real human being. Wow.

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  @Sf_Mason · 3 years ago

  As a mechanical engineer, this is mind boggling.. And those 2 books make up about 90% of the methods and mathmatics I use on a daily basis to design compoents.

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  @yodaspielberg · 3 years ago

  Seeing Origin and Principia together like that was oddly emotional. That&apos;s so cool.

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  @skollrum · 3 years ago

  Brady and Adam need to do so much more collaborations

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  @wmkm7144 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO77Bc85krc&amp;t=23">0:23</a> I thought he was going to say: &quot;Around here, one guy is the main man, and that is Keith! Come on out Keith!&quot;

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  @jonhewlett · 3 years ago

  For those saying that Adam should do a one day build of a storage box for the death mask, the archivists would be VERY cautious about what materials were used, that grey cardboard box may look boring, but its archival quality storage, acid free card etc etc etc.<br>Not at all a simple thing to make when you have to store items in them for the very long term without damage.

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  @wernerviehhauser94 · 3 years ago

  When talking about Newtons Principia, we should not forget the person who immensly helped spread it - Emilie du Chatelet. Not only did she translate it to French (a popular language among aristocrats in continental Europe), but she combined Newtons math with Leibnitz&apos; notation and advancements in calculus and pointed out a flaw in Newtons argumentagtion where Newton considered Energy to be proportional to v, whereas it is actually proportional to v^2.

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