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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Literature Biography |
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Named Person: | Isaac Newton; Aristotle.; Isaac Newton |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard S Westfall |
ISBN: | 0521432529 9780521432528 |
OCLC Number: | 818852752 |
Description: | xv, 328 pages, 6 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgements; A note about dates; 1. A sober, silent, thinking lad; 2. The solitary scholar; 3. Anni Mirabilis; 4. Lucasian professor; 5. Publication and crisis; 6. Rebellion; 7. Years of silence; 8. Principia; 9. Revolution; 10. The mint; 11. President of the Royal Society; 12. The priority dispute; 13. Years of decline; Biographical essay; Index. |
Responsibility: | by Richard S. Westfall. |
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'That this is the best biography of Newton is easily and truthfully said ... surely no one is going to repeat Westfall's immense and shrewdly conducted task in this century at least.' A. Rupert Hall, New Scientist '... Westfall has organised his enormous task beautifully and done our most elusive worthy proud.' M. Ratcliffe, The Times '... It provides a masterly, well-documented summary of contemporary views of all the many facets of Newton's astoundingly wide-ranging career ... and will be essential reading for aspiring Newtonian scholars.' Marie Boas Hall, Nature 'Altogether, this book should be considered an indispensable acquisition for any intelligent reader's bookshelf ... excellent value for money.' Webb Society Quarterly Journal Read more...


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- Newton, Isaac, -- 1642-1727.
- Aristotle. -- Physics.
- Philosophy.
- Science -- History.
- Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Physics -- History.
- Matter -- Philosophy.
- Thought and thinking.
- Silence -- Literature.
- Revolution.
- Scholars -- Biography.
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Physicists.
- Physics.
- Scholars.
- Science.
- Silence.
- Great Britain.