{"id":103290,"date":"2020-03-05T00:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/rare-isaac-newton-manuscript-discovered-in-corsican-library"},"modified":"2020-03-05T00:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:43:41","slug":"rare-isaac-newton-manuscript-discovered-in-corsican-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/rare-isaac-newton-manuscript-discovered-in-corsican-library","title":{"rendered":"Rare Isaac Newton manuscript discovered in Corsican library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-isaac-newton-manuscript-discovered-in-corsican-library.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton\u2019s groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of Corsica.<\/p>\n<p>Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, director of conservation at the Fesch public heritage library in Ajaccio, said she discovered the copy of the 17th-century work while studying an index from the library\u2019s founder Lucien Bonaparte\u2014one of Napoleon\u2019s brothers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found the Holy Grail in the main room, hidden in the upper shelves,\u201d she told AFP this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first-edition copy of Isaac Newton\u2019s groundbreaking book laying out his three laws of motion, which became the foundation for modern physics, has been found at a library on the French island of Corsica. Vannina Schirinsky-Schikhmatoff, director of conservation at the Fesch public heritage library in Ajaccio, said she discovered the copy of the 17th-century [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}