Term 1 Blog #50

wow, fifty blog entries. i feel old already.
mr olson, here is my paraphrase for what you read to us today:
Neweton fought with Leibnez for the crediation of inventing calculus. He also proved that the earth was not entirely round.
One of the people who tried to find the circumference of the earth by using trigonometry. He measured a part of the earth and when he calculated the distance, he was only 600 yards off. His two daughters married off to bad husbands and that fact added to his depression.
Another guy also tried to find the circumference of the earth by pretending that the earth is completely round (which it is not, as Newton already proved).
That's all I remember about what you read today, Mr. Olson.