Newton, Calculus, and the Lucasian Legacy

Episode 3 in our Lucasian Professors series profiles Sir Isaac Newton—the second holder of the chair—tracing how private study during Cambridge's plague years yielded calculus, how the Principia unified motion and gravity, and how his breakthroughs in optics and astronomy transformed science. We examine the Newton–Leibniz calculus controversy, the invention of the reflecting telescope, and the enduring impact of Newton's laws on engineering and technology today.

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