🧵 This book has been published for 337 years
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 16:14:24 UTC No. 16262950
So what’s the % of population that can understand it now? Voltaire said it was like 20 people at his time, it can’t be worse than that.
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 16:21:23 UTC No. 16262963
Newton's laws are highschool physics ...
So I'd say half of the population understands it (almost all boys)
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 16:48:01 UTC No. 16262981
>>16262963
They understand the concepts in the book, but the actual text is almost unreadable.
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 16:50:01 UTC No. 16262986
>>16262981
What in the fuck is that
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 19:40:22 UTC No. 16263157
>>16262950
Newton uses a geometric argument instead of pure calculus equations. Actually, there aren't really equations - he more just explains everything like >>16262981. It's still readable, but honestly I doubt it's any harder to read now than it was back then. Without equations, in order to fully understand the text you'd have to legit write everything out yourself, unless you're a super memorizer and can imagine a bunch of pictures in your head (bet Gauss could do that for example).
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 19:47:42 UTC No. 16263170
>>16262986
v = at
x1/x0 = .5a(t1)^2 / .5 a(t0)^2 = (t1/t0)^2
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 19:54:41 UTC No. 16263185
>>16262981
What a headache...
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 20:40:55 UTC No. 16263253
>>16262950
Just make it readable with AI.
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 20:56:08 UTC No. 16263277
>>16263253
lol so shit.
Turning over invokes the imagery of a car. The advice his father gave him helped him get started.
Anonymous at Mon, 1 Jul 2024 21:57:36 UTC No. 16263392
>>16262950
Probably around 10%. In the last 40 years, calculus has become available to younger students in highschool/secondary school so the number of people who understand calculus has grown, but most people around the world do not take calculus in school.
>>16262963
This is delusional.
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 01:17:04 UTC No. 16263603
>>16263253
This is complete shit, it would probably be wildly inaccurate given how obtuse the language is.
There's already a comprehensive companion book by Chandresekhar that reformulates most of it using modern terminology.
https://books.google.com/books?id=q
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 02:25:08 UTC No. 16263649
>>16262950
ALL HAIL the great NEWTON!!!
And the AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
although he probably wouldn’t like me because I’m black
Anonymous at Tue, 2 Jul 2024 03:13:54 UTC No. 16263682