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To: koan who wrote (43335)10/2/2011 1:05:26 PM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 119360
 
I got Principia for Christmas one year -- have never gotten further than the first 20 pages -- it's hard, even if you have a background ...

I agree -- that both of these fellows were persistent in the extreme -- we often think of genius as pure gift and forget about the perseverance part ... the hard work and long time thinking about the problems they were interested in. And if books have it right --yes, Newton was a bit of a nut.