Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Newton
न्यूटन
said NYOO-ton
also written: newton, isaac newton, nyutan
Meaning
Isaac Newton (1643-1727), founder of classical mechanics; his fixed, clockwork universe is the very picture of nature that Iqbal argued modern physics (Einstein) had since overturned in favour of a dynamic cosmos.
Related words
URDU
Einstein
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist of relativity; Iqbal cited his theory in the Reconstruction as evidence that modern science itself had dissolved the old fixed, mechanical view of time and matter.
ARABIC
Ilm-e-Jadid
'Modern knowledge / new science' — the empirical sciences of the contemporary West. Iqbal urged Muslims to acquire it as their own lost inheritance, not to be dazzled or enslaved by it.
ARABIC
Zaman-o-makan
Time and space.