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There's a grammatically incorrect sentence in the fourth paragraph (second sentence). Change: "Unusually for a member of the Cambridge faculty of the day, he refused to take holy orders in the Church of England."

To: "Unusual ..." Aidanjalili03 (talk) 22:12, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Happy Editing--IAmChaos 04:17, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted. The existing version is not grammatically incorrect. "Unusually" is an adverb modifying "he refused". To write "Unusual he refused" is grammatically incorrect. GrindtXX (talk) 10:01, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

English 110.39.9.134 (talk) 15:02, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Why did Newton have a coat of arms, and what do the crossed bones mean? I though that was something associated with aristocracy? Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk) 16:26, 5 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

See Newton baronets#Newton baronets, of Barrs Court (1660). This article has a bunch of speculation about it. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 14:52, 6 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The OS and NS calendar difference is only about 11 days. The changing of the calendar system should not underlie the ambiguity of the year of Newton’s death as the wiki entry currently implies. 71.198.251.90 (talk) 02:17, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The difference in year is because, before the change to "new style", the new year started on Lady Day (25 March), so in the old style he died on 20 March 1726. This is all explained in the first footnote (a), which is referenced in the opening sentence of the article and in the infobox. Mikenorton (talk) 21:26, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

... and dual dating (such as 1726/27) is a widespread convention specifically adopted to avoid ambiguity. GrindtXX (talk) 23:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"In the Principia, Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until it was superseded by the theory of relativity."

Newton's most important discovery was that the laws of nature are universal. Up to that time, it had been generally assumed that the laws of motion applicable on Earth were different from the laws of motion applicable to celestial objects. This seems obvious to us now, but it was not obvious in Newton's day (indeed it was "obvious" that they were not the same). The details of Newton's laws of motion and of Newton's theory of gravitation have indeed been superseded, but the understanding that it is possible to formulate universal laws of physics has not. On the contrary, it underlies the whole of physics since Newton. The above sentence should be changed to make this distinction clear. Comment below if you disagree, otherwise I'll go ahead and correct this. Insulation2 (talk) 09:20, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think you are correct to take issue with this sentence. Newton's laws were never really superseded, they were just qualified to apply only in inertial reference frames. That said, to the best of my understanding, universal gravitation was pretty much superseded by general relativity. And as you say, not even mentioned is the very important postulate that the laws of physics can be assumed to be universal. I would support a change to make this clear (without bringing in too much detail - this is a lead sentence, after all). — Jumbo T (talk) 11:13, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]