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T'Pau
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Hi,
I've got a strange situation. I'm a teacher in a foreign country, and one of my students wrote stories about historical characters. But his stories are so good, that I'm not shure if he has written them himself... My suspision is, that he has taken some Englisch stories, and translated them. So, now I try to translate back(?) to Englisch what he wrote. Which makes the text below of course kind of indirect...
Does anybody recognise something like this:
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1666, Newton was leaning against a tree. He had temporarily stopped his studies at Cambridge because of the plague epidemic. Newton was forced to go back to his place of birth, Colsterworth. He had had few friends at Cambridge University, yet there had been one person who had aroused his interest, Isaac Barrow. Isaac Barrow had instigated Newton's interest in mathematics and physics, and since then he had thought of nothing else. He had studied works of Galilei, Kepler and Wallis. Newton was already convinced of the heliocentric worldview. There had been enough observations, the movement of planets round the sun had been seen and described by Kepler, amongst others. Newton stared ahead and wondered how it was possible that planets moved round the sun this way, without the sun touching them. What was steering the planets? Aristoteles had told it 2000 years ago, in the heavens (space) there are other laws of physics than on earth. Newton deep in his thoughts stared at the tree opposite, an apple fell down and hit the ground. Newton suddenly had an idea, had Aristoteles been wrong and were the laws of physics the same on Earth as in the heavens? Was the force on the apple the same as the force on the moon? Newton rose up and ran inside.
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1684, Newton is now a professor at Cambridge University. He was working in his room, when there was a knock on the door. While Newton was walking down he saw that it was Edmond Halley who had knocked. Newton knew Edmond Halley from a few years before. Halley, like himself, was interested in the motion of heavenly bodies round the sun. After Newton had let in Halley, Halley started talking. 'I have come to ask you something', said Halley. Halley started to tell about the motion of planets. 'Stop', said Newton. Newton had calculated the motion of planets years before.
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Last example:
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1924, Edwin Hubble took a long draft from his sigarette and stared in front of him. It was night and dark. The view was fantastic, the moon was the only light that illuminated the mountains. Hubble was standing on the 1742 meter high top of Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains. He had seen this view before, indeed, he saw it every day.
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The Hookertelescope was the best and only of its kind. The telescoop was adjusted to the Andromeda Nebula, the place where he had discovered many Cepheïdes. Cepheïds are stars that with regularity change their brightness. Hubble has been able to determine with which frequency and intensity this brightness increases and decreases. These were nice discoveries, but nothing groundbreaking.
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Any help will be appreciated very much! Did my student wrote this himself, or is it out of a book?
Paul
I've got a strange situation. I'm a teacher in a foreign country, and one of my students wrote stories about historical characters. But his stories are so good, that I'm not shure if he has written them himself... My suspision is, that he has taken some Englisch stories, and translated them. So, now I try to translate back(?) to Englisch what he wrote. Which makes the text below of course kind of indirect...
Does anybody recognise something like this:
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1666, Newton was leaning against a tree. He had temporarily stopped his studies at Cambridge because of the plague epidemic. Newton was forced to go back to his place of birth, Colsterworth. He had had few friends at Cambridge University, yet there had been one person who had aroused his interest, Isaac Barrow. Isaac Barrow had instigated Newton's interest in mathematics and physics, and since then he had thought of nothing else. He had studied works of Galilei, Kepler and Wallis. Newton was already convinced of the heliocentric worldview. There had been enough observations, the movement of planets round the sun had been seen and described by Kepler, amongst others. Newton stared ahead and wondered how it was possible that planets moved round the sun this way, without the sun touching them. What was steering the planets? Aristoteles had told it 2000 years ago, in the heavens (space) there are other laws of physics than on earth. Newton deep in his thoughts stared at the tree opposite, an apple fell down and hit the ground. Newton suddenly had an idea, had Aristoteles been wrong and were the laws of physics the same on Earth as in the heavens? Was the force on the apple the same as the force on the moon? Newton rose up and ran inside.
-----
1684, Newton is now a professor at Cambridge University. He was working in his room, when there was a knock on the door. While Newton was walking down he saw that it was Edmond Halley who had knocked. Newton knew Edmond Halley from a few years before. Halley, like himself, was interested in the motion of heavenly bodies round the sun. After Newton had let in Halley, Halley started talking. 'I have come to ask you something', said Halley. Halley started to tell about the motion of planets. 'Stop', said Newton. Newton had calculated the motion of planets years before.
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Last example:
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1924, Edwin Hubble took a long draft from his sigarette and stared in front of him. It was night and dark. The view was fantastic, the moon was the only light that illuminated the mountains. Hubble was standing on the 1742 meter high top of Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains. He had seen this view before, indeed, he saw it every day.
< ... >
The Hookertelescope was the best and only of its kind. The telescoop was adjusted to the Andromeda Nebula, the place where he had discovered many Cepheïdes. Cepheïds are stars that with regularity change their brightness. Hubble has been able to determine with which frequency and intensity this brightness increases and decreases. These were nice discoveries, but nothing groundbreaking.
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Any help will be appreciated very much! Did my student wrote this himself, or is it out of a book?
Paul