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The Life of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall. In 1980 Westfall published what is widely regarded as the definitive biography of Isaac Newton, Never at Rest. [3] [4] [5] Reviews also included sharp criticisms, for instance from the British historian of mathematics and Newton scholar Derek T. Whiteside, who alleged defects in the handling of Newton's mathematical education in particular. [6]
Ebenezer Henderson The Great Mystery of Godliness Incontrovertible; or, Sir Isaac Newton and the Socinians foiled in the attempt to prove a corruption in the text, 1 Tim. III. 16, [theòs ephanerōthē en sarki]: containing a review of the charges brought against the passage; an examination of the various readings; and a confirmation of that in ...
Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643 [a]) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. [27] His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait. The following article is part of a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia. It portrays the years after Newton's birth in 1643, his education, as well as his early scientific contributions, before the writing of his main work, the Principia Mathematica, in 1685. Overview of Newton ...
An 1874 engraving showing a probably apocryphal account of Newton's lab fire. In the story, Newton's dog, Diamond, started the fire, burning 20 years of research.Newton is thought to have said: "O Diamond, Diamond, thou little knowest the mischief thou hast done."
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Isaac Newton, "Newton's Waste Book (Part 3) (Normalized Version)": 16 May 1666 entry (The Newton Project) Isaac Newton, "De Analysi per Equationes Numero Terminorum Infinitas (Of the Quadrature of Curves and Analysis by Equations of an Infinite Number of Terms)", in: Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises, James Bettenham, 1745.