14:30, Sat 30th October 2004 at ADC Theatre
Michaelmas Week 3

Sir Isaac Newton: hero, genius and England’s leading scientific thinker.
What will he do to keep it that way?

When Newton accuses German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz of plagiarising
his invention of calculus, he begins a bitter conflict over priority.
Newton assembles a committee of eleven honourable men, all Fellows of the
Royal Society, to adjudicate on the matter. But is their decision really
their own?

When reputations are at stake, what place do morals have in deciding who
was first?

Top Quark Productions' staged reading of this play is to complement the production of Oxygen, co-written by Carl Djerassi.