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INVENTOR, SCIENTIST,
AND TEACHER r£HE&J
lohri^j
ISAAC
Isaac
— On
Newton wrote: the sun and other heavenly bodies:
most beautiful system of the sun, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intel"This
planets,
ligent Being."
— On
the Lord of the heavens:
"This Being governs
all
things, not as the
soul of the world, but as
— On
Lord of
all;
." .
.
atheism:
"Atheism
is
so senseless.
the solar system,
I
When
I
look at
see the earth at the
right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."
— On —
the solar system:
"The motions of the planets require a Divine Arm to impress them." On God, his Savior: "The true God is a living, intelligent and powerful being."
— On
the trials of
life:
are medicines which our gracious and wise physician gives because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him "Trials
for his prescription."
— On
God's presence: "His (God's) duration reaches from eternity to eternity;
His presence from infinity to
infinity."
— On
"I
the Bible:
have a fundamental belief in the Bible as Word of God, written by men who
the
were
inspired.
I
study the Bible daily."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Hudson Tiner
is
a mathematician writing
about a mathematician. Tiner's background as a scientist
and
him unusual inNewton the scien-
faith as a Christian give
sight into the religious
life
of Isaac
and Bible scholar. Tiner is the author of When published in both secular and
—
tist
writing
and
more than 200
religion.
He
Science Fails
and has
religious magazines,
articles dealing
with science
has served as Editor of the Journal
of Arkansas Astronomical Association.
He
is an instructor of physics on the high school and mathematics on the college level, and holds Master's degree from Duke University.
level
a
INVENTOR, SCIENTIST,
AND TEACHER
ISAAC
NEWTON John Hudson Tiner JONATHAN & DAVID
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PUBLICATION DATA
Tiner,John Hudson, 1944Isaac Newton:
The
true story of his
life.
(The Sowers) Bibliography:
p.
143
Includes index.
SUMMARY: A scientist
biography of the seventeenth-century English
who developed
and
th