S01 · E02Season one · Isaac Newton
The Man Who United Earth and Heaven
A private, relentless mind searches for one set of laws powerful enough to explain both a falling object and the movement of the heavens.
Episode overview
The conversation
Atlas sits down with Isaac Newton to explore the ambition behind a world made legible through mathematics. The conversation moves through isolation, rivalry, faith, and the pursuit of universal laws.
Rather than presenting discovery as a clean moment of inspiration, the episode follows the long, difficult process through which Newton connected motion on Earth with motion in the sky.