Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Rob Iliffe

Professor of History of Science at University of Oxford

2 episodes

Covers topics in categories such as:

ScienceAge of EnlightenmentEnglish AnglicansNatural philosophersEnglish inventorsEnglish physicistsScientific lawsCopernican RevolutionBritish scientific instrument makersPeople educated at Westminster School, LondonClassical mechanicsIsaac NewtonEquations of physics

  1. Robert Hooke

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Robert Hooke, the 17th-century scientist with a wide variety of interests from elasticity to microscopes who fell out with Newton.

    18 February 2016

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    Also featuring: David Wootton, Patricia Fara

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    ScienceAge of EnlightenmentEnglish AnglicansNatural philosophersEnglish inventorsEnglish physicistsBritish scientific instrument makersPeople educated at Westminster School, London

  2. The Laws of Motion

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion – three sentences that explain the movements of everything from planets to ping pong balls.

    3 April 2008

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    Also featuring: Simon Schaffer, Raymond Flood

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    ScienceScientific lawsCopernican RevolutionClassical mechanicsIsaac NewtonEquations of physics