Re: IR pol's & 70mm (was: Newton Rings)

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 21 Jul 96 at 16:38, Robert Long wrote:

> |Mmm....is the gravity Newton the same as the optics guy? I should 
> 
> Yes: Sir Isaac.  Physics aside, he is famous for having sat in
> Parliament for years and making only one recorded statement--a request
> that a window be opened to let in some air.  

Perhaps because most of his fellows blew only hot air....
Like that guy....:-))

> His volubility, it seems,
> was confined to science, where he was truly multidisciplinary (if
> that's a word).  Only his contemporary and antagonist, Wolfgang von
> Goethe, can be compared in breadth of grasp.  And in science, Newton
> performed [Newton] rings around Goethe, whose Farbenlehre strikes me
> as the most outrageously bad "great book" in history.  If Geothe was
> right that Newton was wrong, modern color TV wouldn't work, modern
> color printing wouldn't work, and (more to the present point) modern
> color photography wouldn't work. (Pace, any Waldorf/Steiner School
> devotees present.)

Neither would IR exist!
I have a nice historical note from Goethe on my homepage. Appears he
gave rather negative comments on the experiments of the discoverer
of infrared, Wilhelm Herschel (actually William, but he was born in
Hannover and moved to England at the age of 21, so I guess it
originally was Wilhelm....also note the familiarity with the
listowners first name....:-)). 

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