Newton and Cambridge,1661-1727
Wed 04 Jun
|Cambridge
Discover how Newton’s Cambridge years revolutionised science—and how one man reshaped humanity’s understanding of the universe.
Time & Location
04 Jun 2025, 13:00 – 14:30
Cambridge, Meeting Room 3, Queen Anne House, Gonville Pl, Cambridge CB1 1ND, UK
About The Event
How did a quiet scholar from Lincolnshire come to redefine the laws of nature? In Newton and Cambridge (1661–1727): Science, Faith, and the Making of Modern Thought, we journey into the intellectual world of Isaac Newton—mathematician, astronomer, theologian, and one of the most influential minds in history.
This session traces Newton’s time at Cambridge University, where his groundbreaking ideas on motion, gravity, and light took form. But Newton was no narrow scientist: his deep religious convictions and philosophical questions about the cosmos reveal a man as much concerned with metaphysics as mechanics.
Led by Alex, an esteemed scholar and Fellow of Christ’s College Cambridge, the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, and the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies at HSE University Moscow, this talk places Newton in the broader context of the Scientific Revolution, showing how Cambridge became a crucible for new ways of knowing the world.
Whether you’re drawn…