Ka cika wannan magana: Farfesa Winthrop yana ɗaya daga cikin manyan masana kimiyya a Amirka a ƙarni na 18, kuma tasirinsa a kan ci gabanta na farko a New England yana da muhimmanci sosai. Dukansu Benjamin Franklin da Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) mai yiwuwa sun ba da yawa daga cikin sha'awar su na farko a binciken kimiyya ga tasirinsa. Har ila yau, yana da tasiri mai mahimmanci a farkon ilimin falsafa na John Adams a lokacin da yake a Harvard. Ya yi rubutu a kai a kai tare da Royal Society a London - saboda haka, yana ɗaya daga cikin masu ilimi na farko na Amurka da aka ɗauka da gaske a Turai. An zabe shi a cikin Ƙungiyar Falsafa ta Amirka a shekara ta 1768. An san shi ne don ƙoƙarin bayyanawa
Babban girgizar kasa ta Lisbon ta 1755 a matsayin kimiyya <unk> maimakon addini <unk>, kuma aikace-aikacensa na lissafin lissafi ga ayyukan girgizar ƙasa bayan babban girgizar ƙasa ya zama tushen da'awar da aka yi a madadinsa a matsayin wanda ya kafa kimiyyar ilimin kimiyyar kimiyya. Bugu da ƙari, ya lura da wucewar Mercury a shekara ta 1740 da 1761 kuma ya yi tafiya zuwa Newfoundland don lura da wucewar Venus. Ya yi tafiya a cikin jirgin ruwa wanda lardin Massachusetts ya bayar - mai yiwuwa ne na farko binciken kimiyya da aka taɓa aikawa ta kowace jihar Amurka.