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"Presents Newton as a wealthy, ambitious Londoner with international connections, challenging the prevailing view of Newton as a solitary, reclusive genius. A unique narrative structure based on a Hogarth's painting 'The Indian Emperor', incorporating iconographic evidence to identify Newton as a participant in aristocratic metropolitan circles. Relates Newton and his science to Britain's imperial networks and the African slave trade, exposing Britain's greatest scientific hero as a participant in global trading based on slavery"--Publisher's description
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Life after Gravity, Patricia Fara
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2021
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- Titul
- Life after Gravity
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Patricia Fara
- Vydavateľ
- Oxford University Press
- Rok vydania
- 2021
- Väzba
- pevná
- ISBN10
- 0198841027
- ISBN13
- 9780198841029
- Série
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Veda
- Hodnotenie
- 3,55 z 5
- Anotácia
- "Presents Newton as a wealthy, ambitious Londoner with international connections, challenging the prevailing view of Newton as a solitary, reclusive genius. A unique narrative structure based on a Hogarth's painting 'The Indian Emperor', incorporating iconographic evidence to identify Newton as a participant in aristocratic metropolitan circles. Relates Newton and his science to Britain's imperial networks and the African slave trade, exposing Britain's greatest scientific hero as a participant in global trading based on slavery"--Publisher's description