논리적으로 잘 쓰인 글은 훑어읽기(Skimming)기법을 통해 속독이 가능하지만 Story-telling으로 쓰인 글은 전체를 죽죽 읽어 나가야 한다.
전체를 읽어야 하는 글을 어떻게 빠르게 읽어 나갈 수 있는지에 관해 연습해 보자.
이번에는 수학과 과학사에 길이 빛나는 석학 뉴턴의 간략한 생애와 그의 가장 중요한 이론 중 하나인 '미적분학 (Calculus)'이론을 만들어가는 과정을 다룬 글을 제시문으로 선정했다.
이 글은 첫 문장만 읽어 봐도 뉴턴의 전기적 성격의 글이며 연대기적인 서사구조의 글이라는 것을 엿볼 수 있다.
이런 시간순서를 따르는 글은 각 시기에 무슨 일이 있었으며 어떤 업적이 성취되었는지에 주목해 읽어야 한다.
신변잡기적인 내용은 '건너뛰기(skipping)"를 하는 것이 읽고 이해하는 속도를 가속시켜 준다.
밑 줄 친 부분만 잘 읽고,특히 마지막 부분은 스스로 우리말 번역을 시도해보기 바란다.
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Newton was born in the village of Woolsthorpe, England.
His father died before he was born and his mother raised him on the family farm.
As a youth he showed little evidence of his later brilliance, except for an unusual talent with mechanical devices - he apparently built a working water clock and a toy flour mill powered by a mouse.
In 1661 he entered Trinity College in Cambridge with a deficiency in geometry.
Fortunately, Newton caught the eye of Isaac Barrow, a gifted mathematician and teacher.
Under Barrow's guidance Newton immersed himself in mathematics and science, but he graduated without any special distinction.
Because the Plague was spreading rapidly through London, Newton returned to his home in Woolsthorpe and stayed there during the years of 1665 and 1666.
In those two momentous years the entire framework of modern science was miraculously created in Newton's mind - he discovered
For some reason he kept his discoveries to himself.
In 1667 he returned to Cambridge to obtain his Master's degree and upon graduation became a teacher at Trinity.
Then in 1669 Newton succeeded his teacher, Isaac Barrow, to the Lucasian chair of mathematics at Trinity, one of the most honored chairs of mathematics in the world.
