Isaac Newton News
To make sure a planetary system is stable, astronomers need to calculate the motions of multiple interacting planets over billions of years.
Astronomers since Isaac Newton have wrestled with the problem of orbital stability.
Modern astronomers still have to `brute-force` the calculations, albeit with supercomputers instead of abaci or slide rules.
In philosophy, Leibniz is most noted for his conclusion that our Universe is, in a restricted sense, the best possible one that God could have created, an idea that was often lampooned by others such as Voltaire.
Isaac Newton was buried at the Abbey following his death in 1727, as was naturalist Charles Darwin a century and a half later in 1882.
The sketch is thought to have been inspired by the building of a mill nearby during Newton's childhood.
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