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The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner.
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: “I was in the prime of age for invention.”
Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society, Newton, the author of Principia, one of the most important books in the history of science, was fascinated by calculus, the planets and the laws of motion, and, in keeping with his age, blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation. He was as passionate about astrology as astronomy, and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his scientific efforts.
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About the Author
Peter Ackroyd is the author of the influential Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and London: The Biography. He is the biographer of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake and Thomas More. He has also written and presented three TV series for the BBC on Dickens, London and the Romantic Poets.
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“Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a singular genius.”
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0099287382
- ISBN 13 9780099287384
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- Number of pages144
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