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Isaac Newton

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From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton.

The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith.

Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world.

He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light and motion; he effectively discovered gravity; he salvaged the terms 'time', 'space', 'motion' and 'place' from the haze of everyday language, standardized them and married them, each to the other, constructing an edifice that made knowledge a thing of substance: quantative and exact.

Creation, Newton demonstrated, unfolds from simple rules, patterns iterated over unlimited distances.

What Newton learned remains the essence of what we know.

Newton's laws are our laws. When we speak of momentum, of forces and masses, we are seeing the world as Newtonians.

When we seek mathematical laws for economic cycles and human behaviour, we stand on Newton's shoulders.

Our very deeming the universe as solvable is his legacy.

This was the achievement of a reclusive professor, recondite theologian and fervent alchemist.

A man who feared the light of exposure, shrank from controversy and seldom published his work.

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HarperPerennial
0007163185 / 9780007163182
Paperback / softback
509.2
07/06/2004
United Kingdom
English
xii, 289 p. : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2003.