“When I was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1950s, Sir Isaac Newton's presence was still almost palpable.”

— John Moffat , book Reinventing Gravity

Source: Reinventing Gravity (2008), Chapter 1, The Greeks To Newton, p. 24

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