Isaac Barrow and the foundation of the Lucasian professorship
'Very accomplished mathematician, philosopher, chemist' : Newton as Lucasian professor
Making Newton easy : William Whiston in Cambridge and London
Sensible Newtonians : Nicholas Saunderson and John Colson
The negative side of nothing : Edward Waring, Isaac Milner and Newtonian values
Paper and brass : the Lucasian professorship, 1820-39
Arbiters of Victorian science : George Gabriel Stokes and Joshua King
'That universal æthereal plenum' : Joseph Larmor's natural history of physics
Paul Dirac : the purest soul in an atomic age
Is the end in sight for the Lucasian chair? : Stephen Hawking as millennium professor.
