Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson

Professor Feingold speaking at Monticello

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Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson

On May 24, 2005, Mordechai Feingold, Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology, gave a talk at Monticello on the profound effects Newton had on the Enlightentment and Thomas Jefferson. This talk was sponsored by SunTrust.

1. Setting the Stage (4:48)

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2. The Apple and the Truth (5:45)

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3. The Telescope and the Hunchback: Newton vs. Hooke (6:33)

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4. Proving Universal Gravitation: Newton vs. Hooke, Part 2 (3:47)

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5. Newton's Principia, "A book neither he nor anyone else
understands" (4:15)

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6. Newton and Leibniz and the War over Calculus (3:43)

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7. Voltaire and the French Champions of Newton (2:15)

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8. "Science Personified:" Newton in the Enlightement (4:36)

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9. The Sleep of Reason: the Reaction against Newton (4:32)

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10. One of "the greatest men who ever lived" (4:40)

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11. "Truth can stand by itself" (4:26)

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