Isaac Newton

Name: Isaac Newton
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ISBN: 9781400032952

ISBN-10: 1400032954

ISBN-13: 9781400032952

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Authors: James Gleick

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Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation. James Gleick, the author of Chaos…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.99" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

He wrote the worldwide bestseller Chaos, which was nominated for the National Book Award. He was the 1990 McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University.



List of Illustrations


Isaac Newton



What Imployment Is He Fit For?



Some Philosophical Questions



To Resolve Problems by Motion



Two Great Orbs



Bodys & Senses



The Oddest If Not the Most Considerable Detection



Reluctancy and Reaction



In the Midst of a Whirlwind



All Things Are Corruptible



Heresy, Blasphemy, Idolatry



First Principles



Every Body Perseveres



Is He Like Other Men?



No Man Is a Witness in His Own Cause



The Marble Index of a Mind


Notes


Acknowledgments and Sources


Index