Have you read a Scientific American lately? They're publishing _poetry_ these days.
Isaac Newton wrote some of his most important work in poetry.
Mathematical principles of philosophy
Isaac Newton
We consider chiefly those things Which relate to gravity, Levity, elastic force, The resistance of fluids, And the like forces, Whether attractive or impulsive; And therefore, We offer this work as the Mathematical principles of philosophy; For all the difficulty of philosophy Seems to consist of this– From the phenomena O
Whoosh. First, SA isn't publishing any important science via poetry. Second, even if he wrote poetry, Newton didn't write "some of his most important work in poetry", as you claim, although he may have tried to popularize/market them thus. Exactly what was added to science/mathematics by what you quoted? It's nothing but fluff. Dr. Suess did it better and more succinctly:
One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish, / Black fish, Blue fish, Old fish, New fish.
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Isaac Newton wrote some of his most important work in poetry.
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