[NTLK] Police Recover Historic Newton Books (OT)

From: eschneck_at_mindspring.com
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 09:02:07 EST


Well, the headline grabbed my attention, anyway=2E
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  Offbeat News=20
Thursday, Nov=2E 21, 2002 =20
Police Recover Historic Newton Books
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  ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russian police say they
had recovered two stolen first editions of the 1687 Isaac
Newton book which first described his eponymous law on gravity
and revolutionized science=2E

The works, supposedly inspired by an apple falling on the
English physicist's head, were stolen from two St Petersburg
libraries earlier this month=2E

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