Isaac became more of a professor than a student as gave lectures of mathematics and mechanics. ... In some sixteen or seventeen months between 1685 and 1686 Newton wrote the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in Latin which was written Philosphiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. ... He lived a pleasant life, full of accomplishments, and he is said to be "one of the greatest men in the history human thought." ...

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My experience in the field consist of writings by Dante" and Machiavelli, films, plays, lectures, and some short readings. ... I also found this advice very appealing to read, because he backed up his theories with proofs from history. ... The authors gave me a view of the people while the lectures provided more of a visual picture of the country. One lecture, by David Alexander, talked about the Culture and the Environment in Italy. ...

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Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man who expressed his beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own self-criticism. He drew off his own life experiences to write his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to get across. This is reason why he was misunderstood in his own time people, merely read his books and dismissed them as nature books, it is the same reason that many of today's younger generation think of him as a hero. Henry David Thoreau was born on the 12th of July 1817 in Concord, Mas...

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