The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner.Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he “I was in the prime of age for invention.”Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, Master of the Mind and President of the Royal Society, Newton, the author of Principia, one of the most important books in the history of science, was fascinated by calculus, the planets and the laws of motion, and, in keeping with his age, blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation. He was as passionate about astrology as astronomy, and dabbled in alchemy, while his religious faith was never undermined by his scientific efforts.
Ackroydove stručné životopisy Séria
Táto séria skúma životy a diela významných historických postáv, odhaľuje ich ľudskosť a často nečakané detaily z ich osobného života. Prostredníctvom prenikavého a občas provokatívneho pohľadu sa čitatelia zoznamujú s komplexnými osobnosťami, ktoré formovali históriu. Každý diel ponúka sviežu interpretáciu známych tvárí, ktorá boří mýty a predstavuje ich v novom svetle. Je to pútavé čítanie pre každého, kto sa zaujíma o históriu a literatúru.
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