John Wickens

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Newton’s friend who helped improve his reflecting telescope

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Ben WilsonHow to Take Over the World · Isaac Newton · 39:29 · Jan 2025
…You can invent and dream in isolation, but for the building, I mean, it's just incredibly difficult to build anything on your own. And you're generally going to do that better with help, with collaboration. So this telescope is shown off at the Royal Society in London. The Royal Society is a non-governmental body of gentlemen interested in scientific progre…
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Ben WilsonHow to Take Over the World · Isaac Newton · 39:08 · Jan 2025
…And with the telescope, he utilizes the help of his Cambridge friend, John Wickens, who was able to build a better mirror than Isaac Newton was able to. And so greatly improves the quality of the telescope. So again, you do need times of intense seclusion, but collaboration is also really important. I think that's especially true for when you are actually b…
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