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The Newton Boogie
by Ian Hartman (2007)
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in the background.
1. Before he discovered gravity
Newton was hanging round by a tree.
He did a little dance in the dark --
Tripped and fell into that bark!
He did the boogie (Funky Gravity),
He did the boogie (Funky Gravity),
Newton did the boogie down by the physics tree.
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2. That apple fell onto
his head --
It was then that Newton said,
"I have a name for why things fall.
Now kids will learn it in school!"
He did the boogie (Funky Gravity),
He did the boogie (Funky Gravity),
Newton did the boogie down by the physics tree.
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3. Now it’s a concept that we’re
taught,
In Mr. Anthony’s class, how it rocks!
One thing that we know for sure,
Because Newton broke it down we know more.
He did the boogie (Funky Gravity),
He did the boogie (Funky Gravity),
Newton did the boogie down by the physics tree.
I said Newton did the boogie down by the physics tree!
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Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Brief
and entertaining biography
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| This song is about the famous story of how Newton saw
an apple falling, and realized that the same gravitational force
that acted on the apple was responsible for holding the Moon in
its orbit. It appears that this story is factual -- it occurred
when Newton was forced to spend time in Lincolnshire during an
outbreak of the plague in London. The story was popularized by
Voltaire, whose mistress the Marquise of Chatelet wrote the first
French translation of Newton's Principia. Learn
more about the story of the apple. Or, you can learn
more about the physics of universal gravitation. |
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| It is clear that the Marquis of Chatelet was fully aware
of his wife's affair with Voltaire; the two men were on quite
friendly terms. As Barbara Foster, co-author of the book "Three
in Love" puts it, "The Age of Reason was nurtured
by Voltaire's live-in liaison with the marquis du Châtelet
and his scientist wife. Voltaire kept Emilie happy and loaned
money to the marquis, whose influence kept him out of prison."
The Marquise was one of the most remarkable women of her time.
Read
more about the love story of Voltaire and the Marquise. |
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Background image: an apple from a tree directly descended
from the one from which Newton's famous apple is said to have fallen.
From The
Fruit Blog.
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