Newton's "Principia" stolen 439
Silverleaf writes "O2 have a story on the theft of Isaac Newton's revolutionary "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" from a Russian museum. For the non-physicists among you, Newton first published his famed three laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation in "Principia" in 1687. I'm surprised this theft hasn't attracted more attention in the mainstream media, since "Principia" is generally considered the most important scientific works in history."
It's ok... (Score:5, Funny)
I know (Score:2, Funny)
It must've been Hudson Hawk who stole it..
Ebay (Score:5, Funny)
Re:FP -- where's the link? (Score:5, Funny)
Have these men no shame?
For crying out loud (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't someone at least make a photocopy of it?!
Holy shit! (Score:5, Funny)
*gasp* (Score:4, Funny)
*cough*
*choke*
They stole... Principia ?!
(screams to the next room) BRING ME MY GUN!
Those thieves! (Score:3, Funny)
This is dangerous. (Score:5, Funny)
Oops (Score:5, Funny)
>The requested URL
Well, duh! That's what the story is about.
This is no time for jokes! (Score:5, Funny)
Obey the Laws... (Score:5, Funny)
The "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" remained in it's initial state of rest (at a museum in russia) until it was acted upon by those theives.
One can only hope that there will be an equal but opposite force exerted upon the theives, as forces always occur in pairs!
bah (Score:5, Funny)
Newton died years ago. Why not put something in the museum that's a bit more contemporary?
Maybe some Harlequin Romances or Stephen King?
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Steve baby (Score:2, Funny)
probably gone forever (Score:5, Funny)
Not surprising at all... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, come on. Get real... The Sooners lost to the Aggies in College Station. No mystery here.
"theft" (Score:5, Funny)
If you want to be accurate, use the word "take". As in, someone "took" the Principia Mathematica.
If you want to give it a positive connotation, use the term "shared" or "loan". As in, I just "shared" my copy of the Principia with a stranger, or I just involuntarily "loaned" my copy to a man in a ski mask with a gun.
Let the RIAA and other thugs use their propaganda words. I'll stick with morally neutral terminology.
Remember, matter just wants to be free. This doesn't mean zero cost, but it means once you pick up a physical object, you can put it in your pocket and head for the hills, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Besides, I believe the Supreme Court has already ruled that people have the right to "space-shift" other people's possessions.
Interogate the Leibniz Descendents!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Get my drift? [angelfire.com]
Carmen SanDiego (Score:2, Funny)
Fnord
Re:They didn't steal the only copy (Score:3, Funny)
Its the sort of thing that turns up on Antique Roadshow. I can hear the goober now..."I found this in my great-great grandpa's attic. You think I could trade her for sumthin good?...Gooollly, that's a lot of money!"
Re:This is no time for jokes! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh do give it a rest. You know what will happen once you get a post in motion around here.
Rumors ... (Score:3, Funny)
I hate to break it to you, but there are rumors that Newton actually created calculus too. Luckily, calculus hasn't been stolen yet, but it's under close watch now.
More at eleven ...
Sigh... (Score:3, Funny)
Damn, I'm a geek.
Investigate Leibniz (Score:5, Funny)
While it's missing... (Score:3, Funny)
...I'm definitely going to take advantage of F !=ma [k12.oh.us]. I'm going to give my car a good shove tomorrow morning and ride it all the way to work.
I just hope that we don't spin out of orbit while F != G(m1m2)/d2 [uwinnipeg.ca]. I guess, though, that if we start to spin out of orbit, somebody on the far side of the planet can just give it a shove and we'll be back in place.
Unfortunately, I've already noticed my CPU getting hotter [wolfram.com]. And I stood on this really tall guy's shoulders but I couldn't see very far...
And this is why..... (Score:3, Funny)
At least in America this is probably due to the fact that when someone says "Newton" the first thing we think of is "Fig".
Re:bah (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They didn't steal the only copy (Score:2, Funny)
No shit? Reading? In the reading room! whats the world coming to!
Re:It's ok... (Score:5, Funny)
Ahem. I assume that is the scientific division of Barnes and Noble?
It's ok! (Score:2, Funny)
worthless (Score:2, Funny)