<story><title>College Notebook by Isaac Newton</title><url>http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lambdaphage</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m always surprised when reading the notes of scientists and mathematicians working in previous centuries to see just how steeped they were in synthetic geometry.  This was taken to an extreme in the case of the Principia, but one can&amp;#x27;t read Gibbs or Maxwell either without realizing that they felt Euclid in their bones in a way that few people do today, with possible exceptions for mathematicians trained under the Soviet system.</text></comment>
<story><title>College Notebook by Isaac Newton</title><url>http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-04000/20</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hawkharris</author><text>On a technical note, kudos to Cambridge for developing this beautiful platform for interacting with documents -- and for doing it without Flash.&lt;p&gt;On a personal note, everything I wrote during my college career suddenly seems a little less substantial...</text></comment>