World of Isaac Newton
World of Isaac Newton Isaac Newton and the England he knew: the people, places and events that shaped history's greatest scientist. How did a seventeenth-century Lincolnshire farm-boy become one of…
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World of Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton and the England he knew: the people, places and events that shaped history's greatest scientist. How did a seventeenth-century Lincolnshire farm-boy become one of the most influential scientists of all time, his work still relevant to us today and for our future? Across nine decades, Isaac Newton bestrode the world of science, becoming a colossus of experimentation, discovery and philosophy.
His later career at the Royal Mint and his heretical views on religion are considered as extensions of his philosophy. This fascinating new biography explores not only Newton's world and his times but the earlier ideas that were the foundation for his breakthroughs in science and those people around him who influenced his work. Newton's ideas underpinned the Enlightenment that gave birth to the modern world of science and material progress.
From school mathematics to space exploration,