[Jlab-seminars] Fwd: Newton Apple Tree Planting Ceremony this Saturday, February 22

[Mary Fox]

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Subject: 	Newton Apple Tree Planting Ceremony this Saturday, February 22
Date: 	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:21:53 +0000
From: 	Wilkinson, Eleonor V <evwilk at wm.edu>
To: 	'physics0607 at physics.wm.edu' <physics0607 at physics.wm.edu>



Please join us on Saturday, Feb 22 in Small Hall to celebrate the 
planting outside Small Hall of a clone of the famous apple tree that 
helped inspire Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. The celebration will 
include presentations by Newton historian Mordechai Feingold, author 
Dava Sobel, and W&M student Jackson Olsen, in addition to a reading of 
Sobel's play "And the Sun Stood Still," indoor and outdoor hands-on 
activities organized by the Society of Physics Students (complete with 
hovercrafts and a giant oobleck pool), and day and night astronomical 
observations. A rare first-edition copy of Newton's Principia will be on 
display in Small Hall, along with other important texts.

Schedule of Events:
10:00 - 11:00 Dava Sobel will have a Q&A on science at the Cohen Career 
Center

12:00 - 4:00 "Newtonfest" in Small Hall. Physics interactive demos, lab 
tours, liquid nitrogen ice cream, observations with our telescope on the 
roof of Small, physics playroom (hand's-on science).

12:00 - 4:00 Small Hall Lobby. Swem library display of a 1687 copy of 
Newton's Principia, plus work by Aristotle, Galileo's Dialogo and other 
notable scientific works.

1:00 - 1:30 Jackson Olsen, Presentation in Small 111. "The Significance 
of William & Mary's Copy of the Principia."

2:00 - 3:00 Newton Tree planting ceremony, outside Small Hall (rain 
location: Small Hall 110). Remarks by Pres. Reveley, Dava Sobel, 
Mordechai Feingold, and physics faculty.

4:00 - 7:00 The theater department will give a reading of Dava Sobel's 
new play "And the Sun Stood Still" which is about the life of 
Copernicus. She will give introductory remarks from 4:00-4:30, the play 
will then be read, followed by a book signing in the Andrews Lobby.

For more information please visit 
http://www.wm.edu/as/physics/news/bethere.php and 
http://www.wm.edu/as/physics/news/GravitatetotheplantingofNewtonsappletreeonFeb22.php 


Thank you,

Elle

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*Eleonor V. Wilkinson*

Administrative Coordinator

The College of William & Mary-Physics
Small Hall, Room 123
300 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185

Telephone: 757-221-3503

Fax: 757-221-3540

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