Editing Mathematical Bridge (section)

== Myths ==
A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir [[Isaac Newton]] without the use of nuts or bolts. Various stories relate how at some point in the past either students or fellows of the University attempted to take the bridge apart and put it back together, but were unable to work out how to hold the structure together, and were obliged to resort to adding nuts and bolts. In reality, bolts or the equivalent are an inherent part of the design. When it was first built, iron spikes were driven into the joints from the outer side, where they could not be seen from the inside of the parapets, explaining why bolts were thought to be an addition to the original. Newton could not have been directly involved since he died in 1727, twenty-two years before the bridge was constructed.<ref name="queens2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/general-information/historical-fun/queens-college/mathematical-bridge |title=Mathematical Bridge |accessdate=2013-11-02 |publisher=Queens' College, Cambridge}}</ref>