Investigating the site of Newton's laboratory in Trinity College, Cambridge : history of science

• Published in: South African journal of science Vol. 101; no. 7; pp. 315 - 321
• Main Author: Spargo, P.E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Science for South Africa (ASSAf) 01.07.2005

It is not generally known that over the course of some thirty years, Isaac Newton carried out around four hundred chemical experiments in a private laboratory located in the walled garden immediately below his rooms in Trinity College, Cambridge. The exact location of his laboratory has long been a...