| Description |
xv, 623 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-606) and index. |
| Contents |
Inside a quart pot -- Of giants and dwarfs -- The transit of genius -- A movable feast -- A kinde of nothinge -- Some strangeness in the proportion -- The killing ground -- "I desire to withdraw" -- The treasures of darkness -- Heretic : sotto voce -- A pitfall in Eden -- The most perfect mechanic of all -- "Go your way, and sin no more" -- Cul-de-sac -- A morality play -- "Your very loving unkle" -- Sir Isaac -- The devil's banter -- "Second inventors count for nothing" -- "They could not get me to yield" -- Infinity. |
| Summary |
Publisher description: Gale E. Christianson has turned his full attention to one man alone, Isaac Newton, who emerges full-blown in these pages not merely as a preeminent astronomer but as the figure history has long known him to be : the greatest scientific thinker of modern times. |
| Subject |
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
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Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0029051908 |
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9780029051900 |
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