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Sunday Worship: 'Thou art a sun without a sphere'

18/09/2016

'Thou art a sun without a sphere'

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A service live from St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, celebrating the life of Isaac Newton.

A service live from St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, during the Gravity Fields Festival, led by the Rev Stuart Cradduck, celebrating the life and work of Isaac Newton.

'Thou art a sun without a sphere' - a service live from St Wulfram's Church, Grantham, during the Gravity Fields Festival celebrating the life and work of Isaac Newton and exploring the relationship between science and religion. Led by the Rector of Grantham, the Revd Stuart Cradduck with the Revd James Robinson. The choir of St Wulfram's is directed by Dr Tim Williams and accompanied by Edward McCall. Producer: Stephen Shipley

2016 is the 350th anniversary of Newton's 'Year of Wonders' - his Annus Mirabilis - when, because of the plague, he returned from Cambridge to his family home and made massive scientific advances in maths, light and gravitational forces.

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