Isaac Newton / James Gleick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gleick, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Físicos--Gran Bretaña--Biografías.

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.

Newton, Isaac.

Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.

Physicists.

Great Britain.

Local Subjects:

Físicos--Gran Bretaña--Biografías.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 2004.

Summary:

An incisive portrait of one of the world's greatest scientific minds traces the evolution of Isaac Newton's scientific thought, from his early years at Cambridge University through his critical contributions to the history of science. 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 and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newton's reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion - ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.

Contents:

What imployment [sic] is he fit for

Some philosophical questions

To resolve problems by motion

Two great orbs

Bodys [sic] & senses

The oddest if not the most considerable detection

Reluctancy and reaction

In the midst of a whirlwind

All things are corruptible

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:

Originally published: New York : Pantheon, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.

ISBN:

1400032954

9781400032952

OCLC:

55696750

Publisher Number:

99934943060