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The Dark Side of Isaac Newton : Science's Greatest Fraud?.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kollerstrom, Nick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.) ill
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2019.
- Summary:
- Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real human being behind the demi-god image has tended to be lost. He was a person who took credit from others, and crushed the reputations of those to whom he owed most. This most brilliant of mathematicians could alas be devious, deceptive and duplicitous. This work doesn't go looking at unpublished alchemical musings as is nowadays fashionable, rather it sticks to the historical record. At the time when the new science was born, we scrutinize the ways in which he failed to discover the law of gravity or invent calculus. What exactly did Leibniz mean by describing him as 'a mind neither fair nor honest'? Why did Robert Hooke describe him as 'the veriest knave in all the house' and why was the astronomer Flamsteed calling him SIN (Sir Isaac Newton)?We are here concerned to give him credit for what he did discover, which may not be quite what you had been told. This book redefines the genius of Isaac Newton, but without the heavily mythologised baggage of a bygone era. He believed in one God, one law and one bank.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Glossary of terms
- Commended Bibliography
- Chapter 1 Ecce Homo
- Chapter 2 To Unweave The Rainbow
- Chapter 3 The Gravity Of The Situation
- Chapter 4 The Mythic Equation
- Chapter 5 The Hollow World Of Edmond Halley
- Chapter 6 The Crushing Of Hooke
- Chapter 7 The Intractable Moon
- Chapter 8 The Duel With Leibniz
- Chapter 9 'Restorer Of Solid Philosophy'
- Chapter 10 Jason, The Golden Fleece, And the Turning Of The Zodiac
- Chapter 11 Gold, Wealth and Empire
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5267-4057-5
- 1-5267-4055-9
- OCLC:
- 1456760982
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