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Sir Isaac Newton, was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and one of the most influential men in human history. His Philosophie Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is considered to be the most influential book in the history of science. In this work, Newton described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, which dominated the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries and is the basis for modern engineering. Newton showed that the...

Taken by the masters to engage in a battle against their wills and against a Mexican regime, they knew very little about. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, a dictator in charge of a brigade comprising over five thousand armed soldiers. Jim Bowie, Colonel William Travis lost their lives during the battle. Their slaves did not. Sam, a faithful slave to Jim Bowie and Joe, a committed and honorable slave to Colonel William Travis fought bravely alongside their masters. And after the battle was decided, and defeat, not victory was the outcome, Joe, and Sam not only survived the battle, but...

IT is proper, I think, to say to the reader that what is here printed is, with slight corrections and enlargements, identical with an address which I prepared ten years or more ago. The address was delivered before several Illinois audiences- among others, before the faculty and students of the University of Illinois at Urbana. The language used is, therefore, less impersonal than would be proper in a monograph written for publication. I have, however, thought best not to change the form of its presentation, but let it go into print substantially as delivered.