Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed door?
While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
door to Newton's study.
Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which Newton
covered with a piece of canvas.
So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Universal
Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first refracting
telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, we
can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity:
THE CAT DOOR
Thank you Sir Isaac.
On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:12:11 PM UTC-4, HeyBub wrote:
> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Universal
> Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first ... [reflecting]
> telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, we
> can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity:
>
> THE CAT DOOR
But the most visible of his contributions is on the rims of the dimes and quarters
in your pocket: milled coin edges was a Newton invention, too.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:03:16 +0100, "Tim W" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>"HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed
>> door?
>>
>> While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
>> Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
>> continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
>> door to Newton's study.
>>
>> Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which
>> Newton covered with a piece of canvas.
>>
>> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of
>> Universal Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first
>> refracting telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific
>> advancements, we can all be grateful for his contribution to human and
>> animal tranquillity:
>>
>> THE CAT DOOR
>>
>> Thank you Sir Isaac.
>
>
>The cat door (or Catflap as we call it) is indeed a great invention. I know
>great minds sometimes independantly invent what someone else has already
>thought of and Newton was certainly a great mind.... but I have seen a cat
>door that is earlier than that. Here is the link:
>
>http://cjeinexeter.blogspot.com/2010/09/exeter-cathedral-cat-hole.html
In cities, that's not too much of a problem, except that any cat in
the neighborhood can come into your house.
In the sticks of Vista, CA, I've had gophers and raccoons wander in
unannounced. I looked up from the couch one morning and saw something
blindly bouncing off the perimeter of the walls in the dining room.
When I got up to see what it was, I nearly fell down laughing so hard.
That laugh shot the gopher back the way it came. My very temporary
roommate replaced the broken-off screen door that weekend.
The 'coon knocked on the front screen door. I got up to see who was
there and heard a chittering on the front porch, right behind where I
was sitting. It was 4 mini-coons. Mama had come knocking. <g>
Mama had also been able to remove the crawl space cover and came
clawing at the underside of the floor in my bedroom (looking for
grubs?) at 3am.
Food and water were left out on the back porch the next evening and
when I saw them at it, I checked under the house and secured the cover
once again, this time with a couple screws, too. It answered a few
questions, like "Why is the cat water bowl so bloody dirty every day
now?" It turns out that the 'coons were washing their hands and meals
in the water. I hadn't seen a cat in a week by this point.
My favorites are the dog doors for large dogs. Perps send their kids
in through them to unlock the door before burglarizing the entire
residence. They're truly a boon to criminals! Large perps with very
long arms can also reach up and unlock doors through cat and smaller
doggy doors.
So, when strange critters come in through your pet doors, be sure to
take pics. I especially want to see those with -rabid- animals.
--
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
-- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
HeyBub wrote:
> Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed door?
>
> While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
> Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
> continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
> door to Newton's study.
>
> Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which Newton
> covered with a piece of canvas.
>
> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Universal
> Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first refracting
> telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, we
> can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity:
>
> THE CAT DOOR
>
> Thank you Sir Isaac.
>
>
When I was growing up on the farm, we had a cat hole in the kitchen
door. Or we did until the day my Mom discovered a huge rat snake
reclining on the kitchen cabinet. Hard to say which was the most
surprised, but Mom was the loudest.
--
Gerald Ross
Don't start comparing yourself to me.
It'll just make you crazy.
GROVER wrote:
>
> Newton invented the "reflecting" telescope, not the "refracting"
> type. I built a 6" Newtonian (reflecting) telescope at the Hayen
> Planetarium (In NYC)many moons ago. It was a not to be forgotten
> experience, polishing the mirror blank and parabolizing it using the
> wave lengths of light. I haul it out on rare occasions and look at
> the moons of Jupiter (as per Galileo) and the rings of Saturn.
> JoeG
Arghhh! My bad. My really bad. Inexcusable for someone who used to be a
proctor in the Astronomy department.
Now the observatory at the University of Texas had the world's
seventh-largest REFRACTING (finally got it right) telescope. Some years
back, the grad students fixed the mounts so it would point below the
horizon. We couldn't see the girl's dorm because the Home Ec building was in
the way, but the Villa Capri Motor Hotel, seven miles away was a different
story.
In article <[email protected]>, gwr40
@comsouth.net says...
>
> HeyBub wrote:
> > Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed door?
> >
> > While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
> > Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
> > continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
> > door to Newton's study.
> >
> > Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which Newton
> > covered with a piece of canvas.
> >
> > So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Universal
> > Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first refracting
> > telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, we
> > can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity:
> >
> > THE CAT DOOR
> >
> > Thank you Sir Isaac.
> >
> >
> When I was growing up on the farm, we had a cat hole in the kitchen
> door. Or we did until the day my Mom discovered a huge rat snake
> reclining on the kitchen cabinet. Hard to say which was the most
> surprised, but Mom was the loudest.
I put the cat door in a window with a couple of long steps needing a
long jump that a cat could negotiate with ease but that were beyond
snakes and the like. Worked fine--only critters other than cats that
ever came through it were carried by the cats, and they were usually but
not always hors d'combat by the time they came in.
HeyBub wrote the following:
> Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed door?
>
> While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
> Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
> continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
> door to Newton's study.
>
> Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which Newton
> covered with a piece of canvas.
>
> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Universal
> Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first refracting
> telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, we
> can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity:
>
> THE CAT DOOR
>
> Thank you Sir Isaac.
>
>
Not just for cats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdMKsZLwdd4
--
Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @
On Aug 10, 8:12=A0pm, "HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed doo=
r?
>
> While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
> Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
> continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
> door to Newton's study.
>
> Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which Newt=
on
> covered with a piece of canvas.
>
> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Univers=
al
> Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first refracting
> telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, =
we
> can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity=
:
>
> THE CAT DOOR
>
> Thank you Sir Isaac.
Newton invented the "reflecting" telescope, not the "refracting"
type. I built a 6" Newtonian (reflecting) telescope at the Hayen
Planetarium (In NYC)many moons ago. It was a not to be forgotten
experience, polishing the mirror blank and parabolizing it using the
wave lengths of light. I haul it out on rare occasions and look at
the moons of Jupiter (as per Galileo) and the rings of Saturn.
JoeG
"HeyBub" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed
> door?
>
> While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
> Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
> continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
> door to Newton's study.
>
> Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which
> Newton covered with a piece of canvas.
>
> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of
> Universal Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first
> refracting telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific
> advancements, we can all be grateful for his contribution to human and
> animal tranquillity:
>
> THE CAT DOOR
>
> Thank you Sir Isaac.
The cat door (or Catflap as we call it) is indeed a great invention. I know
great minds sometimes independantly invent what someone else has already
thought of and Newton was certainly a great mind.... but I have seen a cat
door that is earlier than that. Here is the link:
http://cjeinexeter.blogspot.com/2010/09/exeter-cathedral-cat-hole.html
Tim w
On 8/10/2011 7:12 PM, HeyBub wrote:
> Ever know a cat that didn't want to get on the other side of a closed door?
>
> While trying to avoid the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton decamped to
> Woolsthorpe. While there, he developed the Calculus but his work was
> continually interrupted by his cat fussing to be on the other side of the
> door to Newton's study.
>
> Newton summoned a carpenter and had him cut a hole in the door which Newton
> covered with a piece of canvas.
>
> So, in addition to inventing the Calculus, discovering the Law of Universal
> Gravitation and the Three Laws of Motion, inventing the first refracting
> telescope, and being responsible for many other scientific advancements, we
> can all be grateful for his contribution to human and animal tranquillity:
>
> THE CAT DOOR
>
> Thank you Sir Isaac.
>
>
Yeah, he got the idea after seeing the "doggy door".