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INTRODUCTION. To anyone familiar with the history of modern science, the phrase “miraculous year” in the title immediately calls to mind its Latin counterpart “annus mirabilis,” long used to describe the year 1666, during which Isaac Newton laid the foundations for much of the physics and mathematics that revolutionized seventeenth-century science.
Annus mirabilis (pl. anni mirabiles) is a Latin phrase that means "marvelous year", "wonderful year", or "miraculous year". This term has been used to refer to several years during which events of major importance are remembered, notably Isaac Newton's discoveries in 1666 and Albert Einstein's papers published in 1905.
28 mar 2008 · In the spring of 1836, the year that Perry Miller would call the “Annus Mirabilis” of the Transcendentalist movement, the American Unitarian Association issued a small pamphlet entitled Christianity as a Purely Internal Principle.
In this essay, I propose that a biblical allusion, which Dryden scholars seem to have missed, unlocks a darker counternarrative that undercuts the surface meaning of Annus Mirabilis.
cially, all using the words "Annus" and "Mirabi-lis" in their titles, interpreted the omens to show that God's wrath was manifest in them because of the wickedness of the King and of the Church.
16 sty 2023 · As we reflect on 2022 and look forward to 2023, what meaning are we teasing out of the year behind? And how does that shape our expectations for the year ahead? 2022 has been a tale of two cities for us—”the best of times and the worst of times.” Annus mirabilis–Helping a new friend recover her trust in Jesus. One of our best-ever Women ...
The annus mirabilis deserves its name for three ground-breaking papers on quantum theory, Brownian motion, and special relativity, respectively, that Einstein submitted for publi-cation to the Annalen der Physik over the short span of three and a half months in the spring of 1905.
