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For the first time, the early eighteenth century biographical notices of Sir Isaac Newton have been compiled into one convenient volume. Eminent Newtonian scholar Rupert Hall brings together the five biographies on Newton from this period and includes commentary on each translation. The centerpiece of the volume is a new translation of Paolo Frisi's 1778 biography, which was the first such work on Newton ever published. This comprehensive work...

First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The `revolution in science¿ of this book concerns the natural sciences, that is, knowledge of the external world which we now presume to exist independently of man.

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Thorough, accessible biography of the greatest English metaphysical theologian and peer of Newton.

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A blow-by-blow account of the celebrated controversy over the invention of the calculus.

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In this elegant, absorbing biography of Isaac Newton (1642 1727), Rupert Hall surveys the vast field of modern scholarship in order to interpret Newton's mathematical and experimental approach to nature. Mathematics was always the deepest, most innovative and productive of Newton's interests. However, he was also a historian, theologian, chemist, civil servant, and natural philosopher. These diverse studies were unified in his single design as...

Henry More (1614 87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing, he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists. An admirer of Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle, he rejected their detailed applications of mechanical philosophy to the explanation of natural phenomena. He was an experimenter, yet also a cabbalist and one of the few writers whom Newton acknowle...