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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Cette série explore la vie et l'œuvre de personnages historiques notables, révélant leur humanité et des détails personnels souvent inattendus. À travers une lentille pénétrante et parfois provocatrice, les lecteurs rencontrent des personnalités complexes qui ont façonné l'histoire. Chaque tome offre une nouvelle interprétation de visages familiers, déconstruisant les mythes et les présentant sous un jour nouveau. C'est une lecture captivante pour quiconque s'intéresse à l'histoire et à la littérature.
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