My Goodreads Review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
A concise picture of Isaac Newton that avoids the two extremes of scientist biographies that tend to turn people off: (1) the middle school gossip approach that focuses primarily on rivalries and sexcapades and (2) the rigorous and mathtastic summary of the scientist’s major papers. This is not only a well-balanced portrait of Newton the man, thinker, and scientist, but is a superb characterization of the early days of western science, the scientific journal, and the novel idea of sharing information with your fellow researchers (something that surprisingly many in those days were loathe to do, Newton included).
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