The Newton papers : the strange and true odyssey of Isaac Newton's manuscripts /
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Author / Creator: | Dry, Sarah, 1974- author. |
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Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014] |
Description: | xi, 238 pages ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10042533 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- I. 1727-1822
- 1. The last conflagration
- 2. Sincere search
- 3. To gratify men's curiosities
- II. 1822-1872
- 4. Deranged studies
- 5. Lighting the fire
- 6. Marginal notation
- 7. Any scrap
- 8. Monsters of perfection
- III. 1872-1888
- 9. Proudest boast
- 10. A hiatus in the history
- 11. Examine, classify, divide
- IV. 1888-1936
- 12. Human documents
- 13. Hundreds of feet of mellow calf
- 14. Four shillings
- 15. Pioneers of science
- 16. oe9,000
- 17. A very substantial collection
- 18. Arab's antiquities
- 19. Last of the magicians
- V. 1936-the present
- 20. Founding of a discipline
- 21. We know nothing of Newton here
- 22. Newtonian industry
- 23. Newton's paper trail
- 24. Unity and flux
- 25. Ultimate value