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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge Paperback Library) (Paperback)

by Richard S. Westfall (Author) "NEWTON'S name in the matriculation book of Cambridge University on 8 July 1661, together with those of sixteen other students recently admitted to Trinity College,..." (more)

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Paperback: 928 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New edition edition (29 April 1983)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0521274354
ISBN-13: 978-0521274357
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 5.6 cm

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‘This monumental scientific biography provides a masterly, well-documented summary of contemporary views of all the many facets of Newton’s astoundingly wide-ranging career.’ Nature

‘The first detailed biography of Newton written by a professional historian of science who, over the years, has mastered the prodigious literature, weighed it judiciously, and still manages to reveal new insights by delving into the mass of Newton’s unpublished writings. Westfall has produced a work of major significance.’ Science

‘A monumental biography, and a delight to read.’ The New Yorker

‘Richard Westfall has done Newton proud.’ The Economist

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This richly detailed biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton’s career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton’s achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

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NEWTON'S name in the matriculation book of Cambridge University on 8 July 1661, together with those of sixteen other students recently admitted to Trinity College, bears witness to an event so obviously significant in his life (as it must have been for the other sixteen, and as similar events have been for countless young men through eight centuries of Western history) that one flirts with banality even to mention it. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars An enigma in itself!, 15 Jan 2003

By	Harry JM Kleinhoven (Eelde, the netherlands) - See all my reviews

The perfect birthday shopping gift! When you want something really worthwhile to read and expand your mind at the same time, take this book. It's a biopgraphy with a quality you see rarely: comprehensive, thorough, very clearly written, on high-quality paper, and all this of one of the great enigmas of science (but in my humble opinion: he is THE greatest). I was hooked right from page one. The size of the book mirrors his awesome achievements: it's a vast tome, almost a 1000 pages. Not one of these was boring. Each page harbored yet new vistas. When I had finished the book, I was left with the small pain of having said goodbye to an old (!) friend. For not only his achievements were discussed, the all too human man behind it all was also portrayed, giving an intimate view of not only the scientist, but also of the sometimes jealous, eager, callous, friendly, etc, man who was Isaac Newton as a person.

All in all it kept me wondering: how on Earth was one man alone able to grow to such great heights, and especially during such a backward age (mid-1600s). Well, perhaps these two well-known citations from Newton himself are true after all: 'I was standing on the shoulders of giants' (he must have been truly modest then) and, also explaining the book's title, '[..] he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously [..] is never at rest [..] [in his mind]'.

The book gave me some small challenges also. What I missed a bit was an Old English pronounciation list. There was many a citation from Newton's original work or letters, which I really liked. For me though, not quite used to reading in Old English, it took me quite some time to understand the olden English words judiciously used there, e.g. ye=the, wch=which, wt=with, etc (about 20 words in total). It made reading sometime a bit difficult, but after a while I got the knack of it.

After having read the book I was immensely enriched in my appreciation for this little great man. Too bad there are so few good books like these.

My next two books will be Newton's 'Principia' and 'Opticks', both still very worthwhile reads, even after more than 300 years (!). (But so is Shakespeare.)

-Harry-

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