Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Westfall, Richard S., author

Title:

Never at rest : a biography of Isaac Newton / Richard S. Westfall, Professor of History of Science, Indiana University.

Publisher, Date:

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980

Description:

xviii, 908 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary:

"This richly detailed biography of Isaac Newton deals with every facet of his remarkable life, but centers on the scientific career that has made him a subject of eternal interest. Recent research has fundamentally altered our perception of the man whose influence dominated physical science for two centuries, and Professor Westfall draws on this work in presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, scientist, philosopher, theologian, and public figure."--The inside front flap

Subjects:

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.

Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-884) and indexes.

American Historical Association Leo Gershoy Award, 1981.

History of Science Society Pfizer Award, 1983.

Contents:

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A note about dates -- Abbreviations used in footnotes -- The discovery of a new world -- A sober, silent, thinking lad -- The solitary scholar -- Resolving problems by motion -- Anni mirabiles -- Lucasian professor -- Publication and crisis -- Rebellion -- Years of silence -- Principia -- Revolution -- The Mint -- President of the Royal Society -- The priority dispute -- Years of decline -- Bibliographical essay -- List of illustrations -- Index.

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Table of contents

French equivalent / Équivalent français

Publisher description

LCCN:

79026294

ISBN:

0521231434

9780521231435

* 0521274354

* 9780521274357

Other Number:

5677169

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

41801

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BIO Newton