Isaac Newton
Hall, A. Rupert / Gregory Kohlstedt, Sally / Knight, David M.
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...