Talk:Annus mirabilis

Einstein

' It has also been widely used to refer to 1905, about Albert Einstein. The annus mirabilis is often called the "miraculous year" in English, or in German, the "Wunderjahr" ("wonder-year"). ', this has been removed... The term has existed for nearly 350 years -- conjecture how many 'anni mirabiles' have occurred since then... The mention of Einstein is a mere trifle -- you scientific wikipedians disgust me. -- Nalco 17:10, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Reinstated. Einstein's contribution is way more important, and of worldwide scope, than a fire that is a mere footnote in even the most parochial of British history books. In any case, the term has existed for more that two thousand years, since it's not a neologism but perfectly fine Latin. 193.175.53.21 (talk) 13:17, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Larkin Poem

Surely this breaks copyright, having the whole poem here!? Almost-instinct 22:07, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

666

   I found

as "666" is the "Number of the Beast"

and i replaced with

as "666" was then regarded as the ...[etc.]

bcz 666 and 616 have changed places in the last year or so (even tho IMO "is" should have already been treated as a PoV).
   "666" was the variant supported by the oldest known text of (or i guess, oldest relevant scrap of the text from) the scriptural sources, and 616 had been generally regarded as a variant introduced by a copyist. But now a papyrus fragment including "616" in the right context has been carbon dated, and is significantly older than any of the previously most-convincingly-close-to-original "666" texts of the passage in question, so presumably 666 is now the variant. IIRC, the accepted text in Revelations has "the Number of the Beast, and its name,", and both numbers have long been treated as relevant to the exegesis, as "Neron" was apparently an acceptable spelling for the emperor Nero's name (perhaps depending on the grammatical case?), and on that basis, the extra nu would count as an additional 50 toward the total numerological "value" of the koine Greek (the language of the earliest surviving NT sources) spelling for "Nero Caesar".
--Jerzy•t 21:21, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Apples

The apple story was invented by Voltaire, signifying tha the had had his way with Newton's niece. The garden of Eden, forbidden fruit = apples. Get it! Voltaire was notroirs for it.61.68.163.217 (talk) 10:39, 23 February 2017 (UTC)