Roger Cotes and Robert Cotes blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Roger Cotes 1682-1716 born in Burbage. Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge Mathematician who wrote an Introduction to Newton's work on Gravity. Son of Robert, Rector of Burbage Recorded plaque organisation: Burbage Heritage Group.

Roger Cotes was a mathematician and the professor of astronomy at Cambridge, known for his work on Newton's Principia Mathematica; his father, Robert Cotes, was the Rector of Burbage. Roger's contributions to mathematics and his editorial work on Newton’s seminal text on gravity have made him an important figure in the history of science.