The Apple and the Moon

Sent home from Cambridge by the plague, Isaac Newton split sunlight with a prism, weighed the Moon's fall against an apple's, and imagined a cannon firing hard enough to miss the Earth forever. Run all three experiments, then follow the twenty years, the feuds and the second career at the Royal Mint that came after. Episode 02 of the Great Scientists series.

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