 | I boarded a flight on June 27th, 2005, bound for London. Upon arrival the following day, I immediately made use of the Underground, visiting The Royal Society of Science, where Isaac Newton served as President from 1703 to 1724. |
| My next stop was Newton's final resting place. Westminster Abbey, burial place for kings and statesmen, holds the remains of over 3000 souls in the Church and Cloister.
The monument to Newton depicts him reclining against volumes of his great works, including Opticks (1704), and Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1686-87). |
| Rising early Wednesday morning, I boarded a train headed to Cambridge University, a confederation of thirty-one independent colleges. |
 | Isaac Newton entered Trinity College in 1661, but spent 1665-66 at the family manor because the plague had struck Cambridge. |
 | Newton served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College for 27 years (1669-1696), a position currently held by Stephen Hawking. The rooms pictured here were Einstein's residence at Trinity College. |
 | While vistiting Cambidge, I visited the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, located in the former Cavendish Laboratory. Among their collections is this replica of Newton's reflecting telescope. |
 | Returning to London Thursday morning, I visited Parliament, where Newton was elected Member of Parliament for the University of Cambridge to the Convention Parliament of 1689, and sat again in 1701-1702. |
 | I spent several hours at the Science Museum of London on Friday. Among their many collections was a section on Science in the 18th Century.
This ornate silver microscope was made for the Prince of Wales (the future King George IV) in 1763. |
 | I boarded a train Saturday morning, bound for Woolsthorpe Manor, birthplace of Isaac Newton. |
 | This massive statue of Isaac Newton is located in front of City Hall in Grantham, the city closest to the hamlet of Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth. |
 | Woolsthorpe Manor is the ancestral home of the Newton family. Isaac Newton was born here on Christmas Day in 1642. |
 | This is a son of the Apple Tree! It has been designated one of fifty Great British Trees by Queen Elizabeth II. |