Isaac Newton by Gale E. Christianson

Isaac Newton



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Isaac Newton Gale E. Christianson
Language: English
Page: 153
Format: pdf
ISBN: 019530070X, 9780195300703
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

From Publishers Weekly

Christianson has built a small empire of Newton biographies, including the full-length In the Presence of the Creator and the much briefer Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution. In fact, this volume is more or less identical to the briefer one, published by Oxford in 1996 as part of its young adult Portraits in Science series. The relatively simple prose betrays its origins, but the book itself gives a solid and accessible introduction to the life and work of Newton (1642–1727), from his early days at Cambridge to his time as a member of Parliament in the critical year of 1689, after King James II fled to France, and the political battles that surrounded Newton's later work as master of the mint. "Newton was a loner pure and simple, secure in the knowledge that he was without peers when it came to almost all matters cerebral," Christianson writes. This biography works best as a brief introduction for general readers; those familiar with the general history of science (or, for that matter, those who've read Neal Stephenson's vastly more nuanced if fictional portrayal of Newton in his Baroque Cycle) will find little that isn't familiar. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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This slim introduction to Newton accents the personality as it lays out the science. The biographer of astronomer Edwin Hubble, Christianson presents traits in the adolescent Newton that flowered or festered when he became an adult, such as his childlike curiosity and his smoldering capacity for hatred. To be blunt, Newton was a disagreeable character. The list of Newton's feuds is long and occurred throughout his life: he fought with his mother and, when he became famous, with Robert Hooke, astronomer John Flamsteed, mathematician Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher John Locke, and who knows how many unrecorded tradesmen. Newton apparently did not argue with fellow members of Parliament, perhaps an act of self-control born of a craving for a government position; he did eventually head the Royal Mint. This indictment will probably astound Christianson's audience, but it will ground them in the historical man behind the revolutionary natural philosopher, and prepare them for books more expansive on physics, such as James Gleick's Isaac Newton (2003). Gilbert TaylorCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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