Isaac Newton

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

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One of the greatest mathematicians and most influential physicists of all time, Isaac Newton was born into a world of turmoil that shaped him and the avenues he chose to explore.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks to science historian Professor Robert Iliffe about Newton’s remarkable life, his laws of motion and gravity as well as about some of the ideas for which he is less well-known.

For this episode, the Senior Producer was Elena Guthrie. It was edited by Seyi Adaobi and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	I'm going to start today's podcast with a plea. If you've ever struggled with maths
0:14.2	or science, please don't turn off. As well as learning a bit about his scientific achievements,
0:19.6	today's podcast also concerns the man we have come to regard as one of the world's greatest
0:25.2	mathematicians and scientists. You're about to learn the fascinating story that was his life.
0:31.1	For Isaac Newton was born into a world of turmoil that shaped him and the avenues he chose to explore.
0:37.2	And while we might know a bit about his calculus and his laws of motion and gravity,
0:41.8	there's much to learn about Newton's life and some of his other ideas for which he is less well known.
0:48.0	So why discuss Isaac Newton now? Well, this month marks 335 years since his most famous work.
0:56.8	His philosophical AI naturalist, Prinkipia Mathematica, mathematical principles of natural philosophy was published.
1:04.4	And 360 years ago this month, a royal charter was given to a group of natural philosophers and physicists
1:11.3	who had been meeting regularly to discuss what we call science and to run experiments.
1:17.5	The royal charter formalised this group to become the royal society and it was this society that
1:23.3	would publish Newton's Prinkipia in 1687. Adopting the motto of Nullius in Werba or take nobody's
1:31.2	word for it, the royal society believed that rather than taking anything on the authority of the
1:36.8	person, all facts should be verified and proven experimentally. So I implore you to cast off any
1:44.5	school day doubts and open yourself to experiment. Our guest today is Rob Eyelife, professor of the
1:53.6	history of science at the University of Oxford and an editorial director of the Newton project.
1:59.0	The aim of the Newton project is to publish in full an online edition of all of Isaac Newton's
2:05.0	writings, whether they were printed or not. Given that Newton's works run to millions of words,
2:12.2	this is an astonishing project and as you can imagine, completing it has given professor Eyelife
2:18.4	remarkable insights into Newton and his life. You can read about those insights in his books,
2:25.0	a very short introduction to Newton and priest of nature, the religious world of Isaac Newton.
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