Letter: Letters: Degrees of danger

From COLIN SMITH

After reading John Emsley’s article I was tempted to write the following
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health assessment for Isaac Newton.

Date: 19 September 1665

Experimenter: Newton, I.

Practice: Sitting under an apple tree.

Potential exposure: Risk of apple falling.

Person exposed: Persons under the tree.

Risk: Chance of bump on the head.

Measures taken to remove risk: Don’t sit under the tree. Place warning
sign.

Where would we be today?

Colin Smith Ashurst Wood West Sussex