Richard S. Westfall

Never at Rest

A Biography of Isaac Newton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 928
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1983
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1358g
• ISBN-13: 9780521274357
• ISBN-10: 0521274354
• Artikelnr.: 22188916

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
A note about dates
Abbreviations used in footnotes
1. The discovery of a new world
2. A sober, silent, thinking lad
3. The solitary scholar
4. Resolving problems by motion
5. Anni mirabiles
6. Lucasian professor
7. Publication and crisis
8. Rebellion
9. Years of silence
10. Principia
11. Revolution
12. The Mint
13. President of the Royal Society
14. The priority dispute
15. Years of decline
Bibliographical essay
List of illustrations
Index.