Sarah Dry (former research fellow, former research fellow, London S

Newton Papers

The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The untold story of Newton's private papers, hidden for centuries, sold for a pittance and then painstakingly reconstructed to reveal a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 141mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780190931582
• ISBN-10: 0190931582
• Artikelnr.: 55085886

Autorenporträt

Sarah Dry is the author of Curie: A Life and has also written on epidemics, global health, and the history of meteorology. She is a former research fellow at the London School of Economics and the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Keynes at the sale
1. The Death of Newton
2. The Inheritors
3. Petrifying Newton
4. The Madness of Newton
5. The Meanness of Newton
6. Getting to Know the Knowers
7. Wrangling with Newton
8. Newton Divided
9. English Books, American Buyers
10. The Dealers
11. The Sotheby Sale
12. The Revealed Newton
13. The Newton Industry
14. The Search for Unity
Epilogue: The Ultimate Value