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Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless

and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was

so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a

subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect.

During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College,

Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them

names—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes for

granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries

and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and

dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his

generation.

James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most

acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into

Newton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations

of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies,

rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can

truly be said: We are all Newtonians.

Amazon.com

As a schoolbook figure, Isaac Newton is most often pictured

sitting under an apple tree, about to discover the secrets of

gravity. In this short biography, James Gleick reveals the life of

a man whose contributions to science and math included far more

than the laws of motion for which he is generally famous. Gleick's

always-accessible style is hampered somewhat by the need to

describe Newton's esoteric thinking processes. After all, the man

invented calculus. But readers who stick with the book will

discover the amazing story of a scientist obsessively determined to

find out how things worked. Working alone, thinking alone, and

experimenting alone, Newton often resorted to strange methods, as

when he risked his sight to find out how the eye processed

images:

.... Newton, experimental philosopher, slid a bodkin into his eye

socket between eyeball and bone. He pressed with the tip until he

saw 'severall white darke & coloured circles'.... Almost as

recklessly, he stared with one eye at the sun, reflected in a

looking glass, for as long as he could bear.

From poor beginnings, Newton rose to prominence and wealth, and

Gleick uses contemporary accounts and notebooks to track the

genius's arc, much as Newton tracked the paths of comets. Without a

single padded sentence or useless fact, Gleick portrays a

complicated man whose inspirations required no falling

apples.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Therese Littleton

Amazon.co.uk

It is a brave writer who tackles a biography of the world famous

pioneer mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton and James

Gleick has acquitted himself superbly well in his new bookIsaac

Newton. Accolades to Newton were piling up even during his early

lifetime in the 17th century when such fame was usually confined to

royalty, popes and archbishops and certainly not to ordinary

mortals born in 1642 of yeomen stock in deepest rural England.

According to Gleick, Newton was the first person whose attainment

"lay in the realm of the mind" to have a state funeral and be

buried in Westminster Abbey. A Latin in*ion proclaimed his

"strength of mind almost divine" with "mathematical principles

peculiarly his own" and declared that "mortals rejoice that there

has existed so great an ornament of the human race"--not bad for a

farm boy from Lincolnshire.

Sensibly, Gleick, a well-known American science writer and author

of the acclaimed Chaos, focuses a great deal on how such a

transformation could happen to anyone with such humble beginnings

at that time in British history. There is no doubt Newton's innate

talent and genius but he was also lucky in that he had excellent

schooling and through the intervention of a relative he was able to

go to the University of Cambridge and went on to stay there most of

his professional life. His mother supplied him with "a chamber pot;

a notebook of 140 blank pages... a quart bottle and ink to fill it,

candles for many long nights, and a lock for his desk". Try sending

your child to university so equipped today.

Of course the critical achievements of Newton's life were in his

scientific achievements and here is the real problem: how to

explain them for the general reader when even academic

mathematicians today find much of the detail of Newton's work hard

to comprehend. This is largely because Newton did not have today's

familiar technical language or standard units of measurement

available to him; he really was exploring terra incognita and

feeling his way. But this is exactly what Gleick manages to get

over so well and there is so much more. Aside from it being an

eminently accessible biography, illustrations, extensive notes,

bibliography and index make this an invaluable source for anyone

who wants to enter the wonderful and arcane world of Sir Isaac

Newton.

--Douglas Palmer

From Publishers Weekly

Gleick's most renowned writing falls into one of two categories:

vivid character studies or broad syntheses of scientific trends.

Here, he fuses the two genres with a biography of the man who was

emblematic of a new scientific paradigm, but this short study falls

a bit short on both counts. The author aims to "ground this book as

wholly as possible in its time; in the texts," and his narrative

relies heavily on direct quotations from Newton's papers,

extensively documented with more than 60 pages of notes. While his

attention to historical detail is impressive, Gleick's narrative

aims somewhere between academic and popular history, and his take

on Newton feels a bit at arms-length, only matching the vibrancy of

his Feynman biography at moments (particularly when describing

Newton's disputes with such competitors as Robert Hooke or

Leibniz). As might be expected, Gleick's de*ions of Newton's

scientific breakthroughs are clear and engaging, and his book is

strongest when discussing the shift to a mathematical view of the

world that Newton championed. In the end, this is a perfectly

serviceable overview of Newton's life and work, and will bring this

chapter in the history of science to a broader audience, but it

lacks the depth one hopes for from a writer of Gleick's

abilities.

From Booklist

Popular sci-tech author Gleick takes as his subject one of the

most written-about figures in the history of science--so what's the

new angle here? A crystalline expositor of what Newton

accomplished, Gleick throttles back the personal aspects of

Newton's life to show the curves of his thought processes. Although

Newton's reputation dimmed in the early twentieth century when his

papers revealed devotion to alchemy and biblical hermeneutics--what

a waste of genius, ran the theme of subsequent biographies--Gleick

incorporates them with the physics and mathematics, as aspects of

Newton's singular obsession with truth . . and secrecy. He

suppressed for decades his invention of calculus; laws of motion;

and optics; and harbored vitriolic hatred for those who disputed

him, such as calculus co-inventor Gottfried Leibniz. Newton's

choleric moods and blazing ideation, Gleick ventures to explain,

can be understood in the context of Restoration England's

intellectual climate, still heavily mystical and only incipiently

rational. Weaving this background into his fine presentation of

Newton's interests, Gleick renders a wonderful impression of the

icon's mind.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Gilbert Taylo

From AudioFile

It's hard to conceive of a time when we did not perceive the

world in terms of Newton's laws. This is the picture of a much less

enlightened time, when Newton himself dabbled in alchemy and magic.

Gleick's fascinating biography looks at history and a man born in

the year Galileo died, who did some of his most important thinking

while those around him died of the Plague. Far from our iconic

picture of the carefree boy under the apple tree, Newton was

irascible, vindictive, and egotistical. As interesting as the

picture Gleick paints is, the book is difficult for the layperson.

Incomprehensible math theory is hard to grasp unless one already

has grounding in the subject. Nonetheless, Allan Corduner's

narration is a pleasure to listen to. One can easily imagine his

deeply satisfying voice, rich with accents and tones, coming

directly from the halls of academia. D.G.

About Author

James Gleick is an author, reporter, and essayist. His writing on

science and technology–including Chaos, Genius, Faster, and What

Just Happened–has been translated into thirty languages. He lives

in New York.

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)20.4 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)13.2

Isaac Newton at forty-six,Portrait by Sir Godfrey

Kneller.1689

Descartes'Vortices

Violent motion

Drawing of apparatus

Infinitd series to Square the hyperbola

The bodkin in his eye

Newton's reflecting telescops

The Experimentum Crucis

Eye and Prism

Dueling diagrams,Newton and Hooke

Force toward the focus of an elliptical orbit

Comet of 1680

Key to the cryptogram

William Blake's Newtom,1795

Newton's death mask

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书籍介绍

Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names— mass , gravity , velocity —things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation.

James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius , and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.