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Newton's Apple Peter Aughton

Newton's Apple By Peter Aughton

Newton's Apple by Peter Aughton


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Summary

'NEWTON'S APPLE' offers a memorable picture of Sir Isaac Newton, his world, and enduring scientific and astronomical discoveries.

Newton's Apple Summary

Newton's Apple: Isaac Newton And The English Scientific Renaissance by Peter Aughton

In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the Restoration overturned England's medieval outlook and a new way of looking at the world allowed the genius of Isaac Newton (b. 1642) and his contemporaries to flourish. Newton had a long and eventful life apart from his scentific discoveries. He was born at the beginnings of the Civil War, his studies were disrupted by the twin disasters of the Great Plague and the Fire of London; a brilliant and enigmatic genius, Newton dabbled in alchemy, wrote over a million words on the Bible, quarrelled with his contemporaries and spent his last years as Master of the Royal Mint as well as President of the Royal Society. This book sets Newton's life and work against this dramatic intellectual rebirth; among his friends and contemporaries were Samuel Pepys, the colourful diarist, John Evelyn, the eccentric antiquarian, the astronomers Edmund Halley and John Flamsteed, and Christopher Wren, the greatest architect of his age. They were all instrumental in the founding of the Royal Society and their aim was nothing less than to examine the whole field of scientific knowledge.

Newton's Apple Reviews

Finished copies have now gone out for review. Paul is being interviewed on BBC RADIO BRISTOL on 12 June BBC RADIO LINCOLNSHIRE on 10 August. There have been local reviews in the BRISTOL OBSERVER and BRISTOL EVENING POST. THE NEW SCIENTIST are definitely reviewing and there was a good review in THE FINANCIAL TIMES this weekend: 'this accessible portrait'THE FINANCIAL TIMES 'this book

About Peter Aughton

Peter Aughton lectures at the University of the West of England. He is an expert on computers, mathematics and astronomy as well as being a gifted story teller who can turn the world of science and history into a wonderland of imagination and discovery.

Table of Contents

Oxford; The Royal Society; Cambridge; Fire; The Telescope; Alchemy; The Freeze; The Principia; Greenwich; Metamorphosis; La Bartica; A New Century

Additional information

GOR001767107
9780297843214
0297843214
Newton's Apple: Isaac Newton And The English Scientific Renaissance by Peter Aughton
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
2003-06-12
216
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