Tag: Isaac Newton

  • Nation & World

    Exhibit charts history of Apollo 11 moon mission

    A new Houghton Library exhibit connects early celestial calculations to the Apollo 11 mission that put two American astronauts on the lunar surface 50 years ago. “Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Fifty” offers gems from Harvard’s collection of rare books and manuscripts as well as NASA items that were aboard the spaceship in…

    7 minutes
    Buzz Aldrin on the moon with Neil Armstrong reflected in his visor.
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    Reviving the Philosophy Chamber

    A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

    5 minutes
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    Challenging ‘eureka’ with rigor

    Renowned British biographer Richard Holmes, speaking at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, reflected on what biography can tell us about science.

    3 minutes
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    The gifts of immigration

    Two Harvard researchers say that new U.S. residents, most of whom are young and nonwhite, reflect not just policy challenges, but an immense reservoir of social potential.

    5 minutes
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    Simple beauties of math (yes, math)

    Mathematics Professor Shing-Tung Yau tells how he discovered the Calabi-Yau manifold, a mysterious but important mathematical concept important in string theory.

    4 minutes