Author

George Girton

Published

December 29, 2025

Happy new year!

Coming up soon, the lunar new year of the horse.

But let’s not put the future horse ahead of saying nite-nite to 2025.

Here’s a stack of sleep books (pictured below) to help you out! (notice also ‘Restful Web APIs’, ha ha ha).

One of the great things about sleep books, is they refer to other sleep books. They’re all pretty good. Just don’t do what Isaac Newton did that made it so hard for him to sleep.

Two huge no-no’s

Don’t stick a bodkin behind your eyeball (see link below for illustration)
Don’t try to solve gravitational equations of the moon (That’s what Newton did and it gave him immense headaches!)

>>I took a bodkin ‘gh’ & put it betwixt my eye & the bone as near to the backside of my eye as I could & pressing my eye with the end of it (so as to make the curvature a,b,c,d,e,f in my eye) there appeared several white dark & coloured circles r, s, t., etc. Which circles were plainest when I continued to rub my eye with the point of the bodkin, but if I held my eye & the bodkin still, though I continued to press my eye with it yet the circles would grow faint & often disappear until I renewed them by moving my eye or the bodkin.<<

Isaac Newton’s actual notebook

Stay tuned, and we’ll keep you posted, maybe ever several months or so.

All best && cheers!

A stack of books about sleep — Stack o’ books about sleep.

p.s. have survived the rains out here in California, it has rained recently.

— all photos Copyright © 2022-2024 George D Girton all rights reserved

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# Happy new year!

Coming up soon, the lunar new year of the horse.

But let's not put the future horse ahead of saying nite-nite to 2025.

Here's a stack of sleep books (pictured below) to help you out! (notice also 'Restful Web APIs', ha ha ha).

One of the great things about sleep books, is they refer to other sleep books. They're all pretty good. Just don't do what Isaac Newton did that made it so hard for him to sleep.

Two huge no-no's

1.  Don't stick a bodkin behind your eyeball (see link below for illustration)
2.  Don't try to solve gravitational equations of the moon (That's what Newton did and it gave him immense headaches!)

> *\>\>I took a bodkin ‘gh’ & put it betwixt my eye & the bone as near to the backside of my eye as I could & pressing my eye with the end of it (so as to make the curvature a,b,c,d,e,f in my eye) there appeared several white dark & coloured circles r, s, t., etc. Which circles were plainest when I continued to rub my eye with the point of the bodkin, but if I held my eye & the bodkin still, though I continued to press my eye with it yet the circles would grow faint & often disappear until I renewed them by moving my eye or the bodkin.\<\<*

[Isaac Newton’s actual notebook](https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-03975/21)

Stay tuned, and we'll keep you posted, maybe ever several months or so.

All best && cheers!

![Stack o' books about sleep.](SleepBooks.gif){fig-alt="A stack of books about sleep"}

p.s. have survived the rains out here in California, it has rained recently.