MEETINGS FOR 2009-2010 Wednesday 28 July 2010

The Colour Group’s summer outing this year will be to Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. This is a particularly appropriate year because it commemorates the 350th anniversary of Newton’s birth, and there will be an exhibition at Woolsthorpe by the Royal Society. Our visit will be led by Professor John Mollon, FRS, an Honorary Member of the Colour Group. The furnishing in the house is being restored to its state in 1665, the year Newton had to return  home from Trinity College Cambridge when the  University was closed because of an outbreak of the plague. During this time he began to experiment with two  prisms he had bought at a fair in Stourbridge. This was also reputedly the time when his meditations under the apple tree were  interrupted by a falling apple. On display are Newton’s original rulers and dividers, sundry prisms, a replica of his telescope, and an edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

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