NEWTON HONORED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 4

NEWTON HONORED

PILGRIMAGE TO GARDEN,

LONDON, March 24,

Celebrations were associated with the bi-centenary of Sir Isaac Newton, the great genius who gave the world its key to the physical ffhiverse. For three days eminent scientists, professors, and teachers of physics, mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics have gathered in the famous garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, to pay liomkge to the inventor of the Differential Calculus, admittedly the most efficient weapon of the whole armory of mathematics. Visitors saw the bedroom in which Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, and the little room he used as a study. They saw, too, a tablet in the room bearing Tope’s inscription : Nature and Nature’s law Lay hid in night. God said, “Let Newton be,” And all was light. In the garden they stood uridflr an old apple tree. It was not, of course, the one under which Newton sat when lie discovered the law of gravitation, but it is said to have been reared from the stock of tile original tree. They visited (Jolsterworth Church, and inspected' the stone on which Newton as a boy inscribed liis name with a penknife. They also went to King’s school, Grantham, where Jsaao was educated, and where he cut his name “I. Newton" on one of the window frames. In their round of inspection, of course, the scientists eloquently paid tribute to his work, and acknowledged the debt later generations owe to him.