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.
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Original Review of Sir Isaac Newton:
It is fortunatethat 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 Newtons remarkable personality and remarkable work. Transactions of the Faraday Society, Volume 25 (1929).
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 Nations
Coinage, 1696-1727
11. The Doyen of British Science, 1703-1727
12. The End
1727.
Selig Brodetsky (1888-1954) was Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
