Enlightening Science

Enlightening Science was a JISC-funded digital project that ran from March 2009 to February 2010. The project used Enlightenment accounts of Newton’s scientific work to convey basic principles of physics to modern day audiences. It worked closely with a number of schools and other institutions and pioneered the use of videos, both to record interviews with historians of science and to capture the recreation of core Newtonian experiments. Thanks to this grant, the Newton Project was also able to transcribe and publish a number of major original scientific works composed by Newton, along with a wide range of ‘Newtonian’ texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.