Isaac Newton

The Last Sorcerer

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Michael White: Isaac Newton (1997, Fourth Estate)

402 pages

English language

Published Sept. 28, 1997 by Fourth Estate.

ISBN:
978-1-85702-416-6
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OCLC Number:
37742859

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5 stars (1 review)

Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White's Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.

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5 stars

If I ever meet Sir Isaac Newton in person, I think I wouldn't like his personality. The way he used Flamsteed's observational data without giving due credit or appreciation, and the way he took revenge from Leibniz for co-inventing Calculus appear distasteful to me. After all, we all are human and every "great" human including Sir Isaac Newton is prone to human fallibility. So, I make peace with this great man and move on.

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me" - Sir Isaac Newton.

Subjects

  • Newton, Isaac, -- Sir, -- 1642-1727
  • Newton, Isaac, -- Sir, -- 1642-1727 -- Influence
  • Alchemy -- Influence
  • Physics -- History
  • Science -- History
  • Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography