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Robert Russell Newton (July 7, 1918 – June 2, 1991) was an American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science. Newton was Supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Newton was known for his book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (1977). In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton showed that Ptolemy had predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described. Distrust of Ptolemy's observations goes back at least as far as doubts raised in the 16th century by Tycho Brahe and in the 18th century by Delambre. R. R. Newton also made a charge of conscious falsification.

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  • روبرت راسل نيوتن (ar)
  • Robert Russell Newton (de)
  • Robert Russell Newton (fr)
  • Robert Russell Newton (en)
  • Ньютон, Роберт Рассел (ru)
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  • روبرت راسل نيوتن (بالإنجليزية: Robert Russell Newton)‏ هو عالم فلك وفيزيائي أمريكي، ولد في 7 يوليو 1918 في تينيسي في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي في 2 يونيو 1991 في سيلفر سبرينغ في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Robert Russell Newton (7 juillet 1918 - 2 juin 1991) était un historien de l'astronomie américain ayant passé la majeure partie de sa carrière universitaire à l'Université Johns-Hopkins. (fr)
  • Ро́берт Ра́ссел Нью́тон (англ. Robert Russell Newton, 7 июля 1918 — 2 июня 1991, Силвер-Спринг, Мэриленд) — американский физик, специалист по небесной механике и истории астрономии. Бо́льшую часть своей научной деятельности посвятил исследованиям в области ракетной техники, механики космических полетов, теории движения Земли, Луны и планет. (ru)
  • Robert Russell Newton oder Robert R. Newton (* 7. Juli 1918; † 2. Juni 1991) war ein US-amerikanischer Physiker und Astronom. Er war Abteilungsleiter des Applied Physics Laboratory an der Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore und wurde mit seinem astronomiegeschichtlichen Buch The crime of Claudius Ptolemy („Das Verbrechen des Claudius Ptolemäus“), erschienen im Jahr 1977, international bekannt. Newton sah in Claudius Ptolemäus (um 100 bis um 175) den „erfolgreichsten Betrüger in der Geschichte der Wissenschaft“. Er warf ihm vor, dass er die in seinem Hauptwerk – dem „Almagest“ – geschilderten astronomischen Erkenntnisse vorwiegend durch Berechnungen, nicht aber durch Beobachtungen gewonnen habe. (de)
  • Robert Russell Newton (July 7, 1918 – June 2, 1991) was an American physicist, astronomer, and historian of science. Newton was Supervisor of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Newton was known for his book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy (1977). In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton showed that Ptolemy had predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described. Distrust of Ptolemy's observations goes back at least as far as doubts raised in the 16th century by Tycho Brahe and in the 18th century by Delambre. R. R. Newton also made a charge of conscious falsification. (en)
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