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Title: Never at Rest : A Biography of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall ISBN: 0-521-27435-4 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 April, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Pebbles on a shore
Comment: There are a fair number of Newton biographies, this one is the most comprehensive and thorough, with a full treatment of the development of Newton's scientific and mathematical thought. What is remarkable is how rapidly Newton mastered the essentials of the techniques of his contemporaries, quietly reaching the forefront of knowledge, this in a few years, and without much prior training before his arrival in the world of Cambridge, where he flowered at once despite the almost defunct educational status of this university. The myth, however, of the annus mirabilis needs replacement with the reality of the anni mirabili, next to the near abandonment of mathematics for some years as Newton's concerns passed to encompass something broader than pure physics and his deskdrawer 'calculus' still embedded in geometrical formalisms. The final composition of the Principia in the wake of the coaxing forth of De Motu is grounds for thunderous applause for Halley who had the presence of mind to grasp who he was dealing with and the politic manner needed to communicate/negotiate with the reclusive prime mover of theory. His great work complete Newton is off to rescue the coinage at the Royal Mint,thence to the forgettable episodes of the priority quarrel with Leibniz. This work is slow but superb on all aspects of Newton's life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Everyone who pay a tribute to Newton must buy
Comment: This is the most authorative biograghy of Newton, the greatest genius of all time!! No need to add more words to praise him. Though the book runs over 900 pages, you would be reading the book breathless until the last page!!! ( similar view from other readers. )
Rating: 5
Summary: Unquestionably a masterpiece!
Comment: This is in the same class as Ray Monk's Wittgenstein biography or Martin Gilbert's Churchill.
I couldn't put it down until I was at the back page, many dozens of hours after I began!
It left me exhausted but enriched!
This sets a standard by which the modern science biography should be judged.
Westfall says something to the effect that the more you know about a person, the closer you get to them, but in Newton's case, the more we learn, the more mysterious he becomes.
You won't be disappointed.
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Title: Isaac Newton by James Gleick ISBN: 0375422331 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman ISBN: 0520088174 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall ISBN: 0521477379 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Gamma : Exploring Euler's Constant by Julian Havil ISBN: 0691099839 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books) by Michael White ISBN: 073820143X Publisher: Perseus Book Group Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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