Sir Isaac Newton: A Brief Account of His Life and Work

by S. Brodetsky

Overview

Originally published in 1927 this book presents the main features of Newton’s life and his chief contributions to scientific knowledge. It gives the non-scientist, as well as the specialist, an insight into the life, personality and achievements of one of England’s greatest scientists and polymaths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040267035
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/06/2024
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Selig Brodetsky (1888-1954) was Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

1.The Lincolnshire Child, 1642-1661 2. The Cambridge Student, 1661-1665 3. The Dawn of Mathematical Discovery 1665 4. The Germ of Universal Gravitation, 1666 5. The Analysis of Light and Colour 1666 6. The Optical Decade, 1668-1678 7. The Gravitational Decade, 1678-1687 8. The ‘Principia’, 1687 9. The Transitional Decade, 1687-1696 10. The Guardian of the Nation’s Coinage, 1696-1727 11. The Doyen of British Science, 1703-1727 12. The End 1727.

Editorial Reviews

Original Review of Sir Isaac Newton:

‘It is fortunate…that to write such a volume should have fallen to a mathematician who has the pen of a ready writer, the dramatic skill to present his readers with something that is more than a lay figure and a welcome power of lucid exposition.’ The Mathematical Gazette, Volume 14, Issue 192, (1928).

‘Professor Brodetsky has given us a balanced and critical account of the life and research of Newton – an account which brings out equally well Newton’s remarkable personality and remarkable work.’ Transactions of the Faraday Society, Volume 25 (1929).

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