Isaac Newton
 

Isaac Newton (Vintage)

by James Gleick

As a schoolbook figure, Isaac Newton is most often pictured sitting under an apple tree, about to discover the secrets of gravity. In this short biography, James Gleick reveals the life of a man whose contributions to science and math included far more than the laws of motion for which he is generally famous. Gleick's always-accessible style is hampered somewhat by the need to describe Newton's... (read more)

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idyll
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This is not as complete a biography as I may have been craving - at times the author veers off into tangential almost poetic asides instead of telling us the who, what and why, but it left me with a feeling of insight into one of our Greatest Ever. (Can't claim to have followed all the mathematical explanations!!:-) His brilliance was astonishing; his prescience concerning posterity particularly touching.

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