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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast,

Science Talk, posted on February 24, 2013. I'm Steve

Murski. I was in a cab going from this airport in the middle of Indiana to a physics

conference, and the cab he said, where are you going? It's a physics conference. And he says,

I know one thing about physics. The king of physics is Isaac Newton.

And that's Matthew Stanley.

He's an astronomer and a professor of the history of science at NYU.

And he was part of a panel talking about Isaac Newton

after a performance of a new play called Isaac's Eye here in New York City on February 20th.

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