In this elegant, absorbing biography of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Rupert Hall surveys the vast field of modern scholarship in order to interpret Newton's mathematical and experimental approach to nature. Mathematics was always the deepest, most innovative and productive of Newton's interests. However, he was also a historian, theologian, chemist, civil servant and natural philosopher. These diverse studies were unified in his single design as a Christian to explore every facet of God's creation. The exploration during the past forty years of Newton's huge manuscript legacy, has greatly altered previous stories of Newton's life, throwing new light on his personality and intellect. Hall's discussion of this research, first published in 1992, shows that Newton cannot simply be explained as a Platonist, or mystic. He remains a complex and enigmatic genius with an immensely imaginative and commonsensical mind.
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The exploration of Newton's huge manuscript legacy during the past forty years has greatly altered previous stories of his life. This discussion shows that he cannot simply be explained as a Platonist, or mystic, and remains the ever complex and enigmatic genius.
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quaedam philosophiae, optical lectures, methodis serierum, quadratura curvarum, optical papers, optical letter, mathematical papers, mercury sublimate, duplicate proportion, continental mathematicians, lunar theory, motu corporum, coloured rays, mathematical lectures, aqua fortis, prismatic colours, optical experiments, sal ammoniac Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Isaac Newton, David Gregory, Trinity College, Robert Hooke, James Gregory, Johann Bernoulli, Philosophical Transactions, Robert Boyle, Henry More, John Wallis, Henry Oldenburg, Humphrey Newton, Isaac Barrow, Christiaan Huygens, John Conduitt, Samuel Clarke, Commercium Epistolicum, Edmond Halley, John Collins, Fatio de Duillier, Master of the Mint, Roger Cotes, Christ's College, John Ray New!
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- Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Richard S. Westfall on 8 pages
- Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy: And Related Documents by Isaac Newton on 5 pages
- The Library of Isaac Newton by John Harrison on 4 pages
- Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook by J. E. McGuire in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History of Technology by Rupert Hall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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