Author: William Stukeley

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• Jaclyn Moriarty (1)
  • IN: The Cracks in the Kingdom (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: On the day that Oliver Cromwell died, there was a very great wind, or tempest over the whole kingdom. That day, as the boys were playing, a set of them went to leaping, Sir Isaac, tho' he was little practis'd in the exercise, and at other times outdone by many; yet this day was surprisingly superior to them all, which they much wondered at, but could not discover the reason; which was this: Sir Isaac observed the gusts of wind, and took so proper an advantage of them, as to carry him far beyond the rest...
    FROM: Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life, (1752), Book, UK