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HERITAGE EVENT
1:30pm - 4pm: Drop in
#newtontreeparty
in Grantham
Lincolnshire’s Age of
Scientific Discovery
Grantham Guildhall
Free drop in event
Duration: 1hr
Drop in to the #newtontreeparty
celebration of Newton families and
local historians who are gathering to
mark the Lincolnshire Age of Scientific
Discovery project. Talks, workshops and
refreshments (and maybe the odd apple).
Hosted by Jack Klaff. Lincolnshire’s Age of
Scientific Discovery.
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SCIENCE EVENT
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2pm
The Dancer’s Brain
2pm
Deborah Bull
Dr Patricia Fara
Grantham Guildhall
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
4000 Years of Science
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SCIENCE EVENT
12:30pm 3:45pm
Fireworks - Real
science or just bangs?
Mattew Tosh
Grantham Guildhall
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
Matthew Tosh takes you behind the
scenes of professional fireworks. You’ll
experience the science behind exciting and
explosive entertainment.
Reflections:
Forces and momentum are integral to how
fireworks operate. Newton’s laws apply
to aerial shells, rockets, spinning effects anything that moves!
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Angel & Royal Hotel, Grantham
Ticket: £4
Duration: 1hr
How do you fit 4000 years of science into
400 pages? Historians call this the Big
Picture problem, and now Patricia Fara
has provided a solution. In her talk she
discusses three of the Big Questions she
had to confront while she was writing her
book – When did science begin? Who
did science? How does science change?
Some of her answers may be unexpected.
Reflections:
In 4000 years of science, Newton seems a
relatively recent addition – he lived a mere
three and a half centuries. He attributed
some of his influences to Aristotle and with
his new discoveries he claimed ‘he was
standing on the shoulders of giants’ – of
those great scientists who had
gone before.
Deborah Bull, a dancer with The Royal
Ballet for 20 years, explores how the brain
governs the dancer’s body.
Reflections:
Newton’s link with neuroscience is
less known than his mathematical and
philosophical writings. His work on optics
was concerned with colour and light, and
he explored the visual pathways from
the eye to the brain, and was willing to
experim [