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The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner.Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he “I was in the prime of age for invention.”Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society, Newton, the author of Principia, one of the most important books in the history of science, was fascinated by calculus, the planets and the laws of motion, and, in keeping with his age, blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation. He was as passionate about astrology as astronomy, and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his scientific efforts.
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Isaac Newton, Peter Ackroyd
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- Année de publication
- 2007
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- Titre
- Isaac Newton
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Peter Ackroyd
- Éditeur
- Vintage
- Publié
- 2007
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 0099287382
- ISBN13
- 9780099287384
- Séries
- Vies Brèves d'Ackroyd
- Recueil
- Brief lives
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Science et Mathématiques, Sciences naturelles, Autobiographies et mémoires, Science, Physique, Histoire des sciences, Scientifiques, Physiciens, Isaac Newton
- Première publication
- 2008
- Titre original
- Newton
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner.Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he “I was in the prime of age for invention.”Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society, Newton, the author of Principia, one of the most important books in the history of science, was fascinated by calculus, the planets and the laws of motion, and, in keeping with his age, blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation. He was as passionate about astrology as astronomy, and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his scientific efforts.