(“He was a notorious dog-earer of pages,” Klein reveals.) Several of Newton’s books are even complete with dog-eared pages. The collection includes many books that were a part of Newton’s library or that he himself annotated, including two first-edition copies of The Principia, his most influential work, which laid out his three laws of motion. Not bad for a shy child born prematurely, small for his age, who reportedly retreated to the worlds of math and science after being taunted by a schoolyard bully. This is, after all, a man who discovered calculus proposed new theories of color and light revolutionized physics built the first reflecting telescope and helped to spearhead the Scientific Revolution. The Babsons acquired much of the Newton collection at auction in the mid-1930s, and it showcases Newton’s boundless intellectual range. In fact, Roger Babson was one of the few financiers who predicted the stock market crash in 1929, foresight that he attributed to his appreciation for Newton’s Third Law: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and “what goes up must come down.” Pretty impressive for Babson to be inspired three centuries later by a scientist born in 1643. Newton embodied the best ideals of a Babson education: creative thinking, entrepreneurship, innovation. Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at The Huntingtonīut what does a long-dead scientist, fluent in Latin, have to do with modern entrepreneurship? In Newton, Roger Babson perhaps saw a glimmer of himself. “Newton is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of the world, and I think that’s why he appealed to Roger and Grace Babson.” The ambitious project-which will bring chronological organization to Newton’s wide-ranging intellectual prowess-also will allow anyone to access images of Newton’s manuscripts at The Huntington Digital Library, and scholars will ideally have a new tool for understanding watermarks. Now, The Huntington is working with an international team of conservators and computer scientists to digitize Newton’s manuscripts, develop a computer vision method for watermark recognition, and use those watermarks to provide more accurate dates for the manuscripts. The Babson collection has been on loan since 2006 at The Huntington, renowned for its special collections library devoted to preserving historical documents. “Newton is one of the most important and influential thinkers in the history of the world, and I think that’s why he appealed to Roger and Grace Babson: He thought very differently than most people around him, and his ideas were extraordinarily innovative,” says Joel Klein, Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences at The Huntington.
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The Babson collection comprises more than 1,000 rare books 54 manuscripts (most by Newton himself) plus ephemera, artifacts, and memorabilia. Complemented by The Huntington’s own materials, this collection of “Newtonia” is the largest in the United States. It’s now a landmark collection at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton. Founder Roger Babson and his wife, Grace, were fascinated with Newton as a polymath entrepreneur, amassing the dazzling Grace K.
In fact, Newton’s roots at Babson College run even deeper. That’s right: Those eight trees are descended from the famed tree whose apple Newton watched fall to the ground in 1666, leading the prolific scientist, author, and theologian to formulate the law of universal gravitation. Next time you’re strolling beneath the grove of apple trees on the North Lawn near Tomasso Hall, think of Sir Isaac Newton.
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