The Life of Isaac Newton

by Westfall, Richard S.

• ISBN13: 9780521432528
• ISBN10: 0521432529
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-03-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Isaac Newton is indisputably one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. His achievements in mathematics and physics marked the culmination of the movement that brought modern science into being. In The Life of Isaac Newton, biographer extraordinaire Westfall lucidly and engagingly captures both the personal life and scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. This book is an abridged version of Professor Westfall's highly acclaimed and well known Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. By eschewing technical details, the author makes this book accessible to a wide range of general readers interested in history of science and biography. Westfall is also the author of The Construction of Modern Science.

Table of 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