Newton - Rilegato

Ackroyd, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0385507992 ISBN 13: 9780385507998

Casa editrice: Nan a Talese, 2008

Riassunto

A vivid portrait of one of the world's most important and influential scientists examines the contributions of Isaac Newton to the history of science and mathematics, detailing his research on calculus, formulation of the laws of motion and universal gravitation, discovery of some of the principles of light, and fascination with astrology, alchemy, theology, and more. 12,500 first printing.

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“Newton is both impeccably researched and a wonderful read. An afternoon in the backyard hammock with ‘the grand autocrat of science.’”
–Los Angeles Times

“[Ackroyd] may well be the most prolific English author of his generation. And, which I find encouraging, he can write movingly and revealingly about Isaac Newton while being no more of a scientist or mathematician than I am.”
–Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair

“Astute and beautifully written.... Not surprisingly, the prolific Mr. Ackroyd, who is the author of 12 novels as well as biographies of Dickens, Thomas More, and Shakespeare–not to mention at least four histories of London–excels at re-creating the look and feel, at once grubby and exalted, of Newton's milieu. And Newton the man comes through splendidly in all the sheer arrogance of his driven genius.”
–The New York Sun

“The brief life of Newton meets a widespread need.... Ackroyd’s writing is a great pleasure to read.”
–The New Criterion

“A terrific piece of work... this is a wonderfully writerly book, never less than elegant in construction and execution.”
–Spectator
 
“Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a singular genius'.”
–The Times

“Ackroyd's essay on [Newton] is understated and elegantly constructed.”
–The Guardian

“Beautifully written and engaging.”
–BBC History

L'autore:

PETER ACKROYD is the biographer of William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas Moore, and the author of the bestselling London: The Biography. The subject of his previous Brief Life was J.M.W. Turner. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (jointly), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is the author of Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and his novels include The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (winner of the Somerset Maughn Award), Hawksmoor (Guardian Fiction Prize), Chatterton (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and most recently The Fall of Troy. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Nan a Talese
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385507992
• ISBN 13: 9780385507998
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176