Priceless treasures: in a shot commissioned to celebrate Cambridge  ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library’s 600th anniversary, Professor Stephen Hawking is pictured with Newton’s annotated first edition of Principia Mathematica.  Credit: Graham CopeKoga

Understanding gravity - from Newton to Hawking

29 April 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by Copernicus, Einstein and Stephen Hawking, feature in a new film, released today, celebrating 600 years of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library.

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Priceless treasures: in a shot commissioned to celebrate Cambridge  ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library’s 600th anniversary, Professor Stephen Hawking is pictured with Newton’s annotated first edition of Principia Mathematica.

Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World

10 March 2016

Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display in Cambridge this week as Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library celebrates its 600th birthday with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of its greatest treasures.

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 ̽»¨Ö±²¥European in India, 1813 by Charles D'Oyly (1781-1845)

A world of science

08 October 2015

̽»¨Ö±²¥history of science has been centred for too long on the West, say Simon Schaffer and Sujit Sivasundaram. It’s time to think global.

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