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“He began with foundation stones of knowledge: time, space, motion. I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all, he wrote in midlife—then a reclusive professor, recondite theologian and alchemist, seldom leaving his room in Trinity College, Cambridge.6 But he did mean to define these terms. He salvaged them from the haze of everyday language. He standardized them. In defining them, he married them, each to the others.He dipped his quill in an ink of oak galls and wrote a minuscule Latin script, crowding the words edge to edge: The common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices.… ” Excerpt From Isaac Newton James Gleick https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=0 This material may be protected by copyright.