Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

by A. Rupert Hall

Book Overview

In this elegant, absorbing biography of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Rupert Hall surveys the vast field of modern scholarship in order to interpret Newton's mathematical and experimental approach to nature. Mathematics was always the deepest, most innovative and productive of Newton's interests. However, he was also a historian, theologian, chemist, civil servant and natural philosopher. These diverse studies were unified in his single design as a Christian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052156669X
• ISBN13: 9780521566698
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"