Merton College
Thirteenth-century college around a medieval quad and library, cradle of early mathematical physics.
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This guide to Merton College in Oxford follows Thomas Bradwardine, William Heytesbury and the little circle of fourteenth-century fellows who set out to put numbers on motion, heat and light, against the word of Aristotle. It touches the plague year of thirteen forty-nine and a theorem about steadily speeding bodies. Best heard standing in Mob Quad, among some of the college's oldest stone.
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