Newton - Brief Lives

Informationen zum Autor Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England . He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature. Klappentext The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's "Brief Lives". 'Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a single genius' "Times" Zusammenfassung 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 wrote: '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 reasoning. Peter Ackroyd brings this somewhat puritanical man to life and demonstrates the unique brilliance of his perceptions, which changed our world forever.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ackroyd
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2007
• EAN: 9780099287384
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928738-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Newton, Isaac, SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects, SCIENCE / Laboratory Techniques, History of Science, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques, Scientific equipment, experiments and techniques