Isaac Newton, adventurer in thought /
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Author / Creator: | Hall, A. Rupert (Alfred Rupert), 1920-2009. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
Description: | xvi, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge science biographies series Cambridge science biographies series. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12031155 |
Table of Contents:
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- 1. The hopeful youth
- 2. 'The prime of my age for invention'
- 3. Widening horizons
- 4. The professor of mathematics
- 5. Publication and polemic
- 6. Life in Cambridge
- 7. The chemical philosopher
- 8. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
- 9. Private and public life
- 10. Fluxions and fury
- 11. Opticks
- 12. Life in London
- 13. A man of authority and learning
- 14. Later books
- 15. Kensington
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index