Isaac Newton : brief lives

著者

• Ackroyd, Peter

書誌事項

Isaac Newton : brief lives

Peter Ackroyd

Vintage, 2007

• : pbk

タイトル別名

Newton

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-155) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for invention.' Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society, Newton, the author of Principia, one of the most important books in the history of science, was fascinated by calculus, the planets and the 'laws of motion', and, in keeping with his age, blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation: he was as passionate about astrology as astronomy and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his scientific reasoning. Peter Ackroyd brings this somewhat puritanical man to life and demonstrates the unique brilliance of his perceptions, which changed our world forever.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA82397679
• ISBN:
  • 9780099287384
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 163 p., [8] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC22 : 530.092
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727
  • LCSH : Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography