this was the subject ot the keynote speaker
at the Ninth Annual Nonlinear Science Conference at UCLA,
although I no longer blame Newton exclusively
for the "controversy" with Liebniz. anyway, apparently,
Hooke did not "do the math" in a formalistic way; after all,
he was the Royal Society's experimenter.

the other part of the joke is that the '99 2-pound coin is inscribed,
"On the shoulders of giants." on the edge; at least,
Newton was effective in his office-of-reward.

thus:
ah, Lord Berty's thing was called the Unity of Sciences;
well, here's a reference:
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2949moonification.html

The two operations of Wells and Russell from which Moon sprung are
these:
The Moral Re-Armament Movement, founded at a 1921 meeting between a
wacky Lutheran preacher from Philadelphia and two British delegates to
the Washington Disarmament Conference, Lord Arthur Balfour and H.G.
Wells. Moral Re-Armament became the mass organizational vehicle for
implementation of Wells' 1928 call in The Open Conspiracy, for a
worldwide movement for draft resistance. The environment of Moon's
Korean ministry was under control of Moral Re-Armament when he was
picked up as an intelligence asset during the Korean War.
The Unity of the Sciences movement. Founded in 1935 under the
supervision of Lord Bertrand Russell and John Dewey, it brought
together Trotskyite academics Albert Wohlstetter (mentor of current
Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle), Sidney Hook, and Ernest
Nagel, with members of the radical-positivist Vienna Circle. Merging
with Robert M. Hutchins at the University of Chicago in the 1950s,
this operation took over the teaching of science in the United States.
Thomas Kuhn's widely read fraud, The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions, was published as the second volume of their Encyclopedia
of Unified Sciences. In 1972, the Moonies were given the Unity of
Sciences franchise, sponsoring the first of their still-ongoing
International Conferences of the Unity of Sciences. Their early
sessions featured such notables as Manhattan Project physicist Eugene
Wigner, the lifelong ally of that truly mad scientist Leo Szilard (the
model for Dr. Strangelove, in Stanley Kubrick's film of that name),
and environmental fascists Alexander King and Aurelio Peccei, founders
of the no-growth Club of Rome.
Before looking back to the history of these projects, let us first
briefly dispense with the person of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Moon as a
personality is of very little importance, in himself. The real
Reverend Moon is a pathetic, if nonetheless nasty, victim of Japanese
internment and North Korean torture sessions. He is what the....

thus:
an aether simply provides a prealistical model
of the phenomenon of "waves;"
one need not deal with photons at all, since
they are just formally dual to waves,
not at all pardoxical, as shown by Dirac.
far too much of theory rests upon Einstein,
saying "that's impossible," which is the reality
behind Michelson-Morley and those
who carried the examination further -- but,
herr doktor-professor Albert said, Nein!, when he was once
in his dysused office at Caltech.

let us remember him for those things which he was really good at,
not the Big Bang Constant and its infernal klingons (fridge
magnets) ?!

thus:
so, to ask an ignorant question of personal interest,
how much of this could be used toward a new or old proof
of quadratic reciprocity?

thus:
ah, sort of a solopsistic monad. I am reminded
of hte Many Words Interpretation of the Copenhagenskool:
to be or not to be that is the shape of the box or the bubble --
inside or out?

thus:
speaking of Young's anhialation of Newton's photons,
here is the earlier elaboration on light by Fermat:
http://www.wlym.com/~seattle/dynamis/issues/august08-fermat.pdf