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TheTechBlogWorld: That sounds like a trivial question, but it’s worth pausing a moment to consider what “invention” really means. In one of my dictionaries, it says an inventor is someone who comes up with an idea for the first time. In another, an inventor is described as a person of “unique intuition or genius” who devises an original product, process, or the machine . Dictionary definitions like these are badly out of date—and probably always have been. Since at least the time of  Thomas Edison  (the mid-to-late 19th century), the invention has been as much about manufacturing and marketing inventions successfully as about having great ideas in the first place. Some of the most famous inventors in history turn out, on closer inspection, not to have originated ideas but to have developed existing ones and made them stunningly successful. Edison himself didn’t invent electric light, but he did develop the first commercially successful, long-lasting electric light bulb....

TheTechBlogWorld: That sounds like a trivial question, but it’s worth pausing a moment to consider what “invention” really means. In one of my dictionaries, it says an inventor is someone who comes up with an idea for the first time. In another, an inventor is described as a person of “unique intuition or genius” who devises an original product, process, or the machine . Dictionary definitions like these are badly out of date—and probably always have been. Since at least the time of  Thomas Edison  (the mid-to-late 19th century), the invention has been as much about manufacturing and marketing inventions successfully as about having great ideas in the first place. Some of the most famous inventors in history turn out, on closer inspection, not to have originated ideas but to have developed existing ones and made them stunningly successful. Edison himself didn’t invent electric light, but he did develop the first commercially successful, long-lasting electric light bulb....

The “Quaestiones” reveal that Newton had discovered the new conception of nature that provided the framework of the scientific revolution.   Sir Isaac Newton , (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colours into the science of light and laid the foundation for modern physical optics. In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation. In mathematics, he was the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus. Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science. For...

The “Quaestiones” reveal that Newton had discovered the new conception of nature that provided the framework of the scientific revolution.   Sir Isaac Newton , (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London), English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colours into the science of light and laid the foundation for modern physical optics. In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation. In mathematics, he was the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus. Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687) was one of the most important single works in the history of modern science. For...