Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide PDF
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Published by Icon Books Ltd, Omnibus Business Centre, 39–41 North Road, London N7 9DP Email: [email protected] www.introducingbooks.com ISBN: 978-184831-982-0 Text copyright © 2012 Icon Books Ltd Illustrations copyright © 2012 Icon Books Ltd The author and illustrator has asserted their moral rights Originating editor: Richard Appignanesi No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Contents Cover Title Page Copyright It’s the Thought that Counts On the Banks of the Nile By the Waters of Babylon All is Number A Cloud of Infinity Squaring the Circle The Conic Sections Exhaustion Plus Ça Change Skirting the Problem Geometry at Play Death of Original Thought Born so Little What Day is It? Childe Isaac Skool Windmills Nature and Art What’s the Time? Fireworks Strange Inventions Sober Silent Thinking Lad First Experiment Low Employments Teacher’s Pet Restoration Cambridge in Turmoil Sizar Chums Ye Official Curriculume Common Sense Physics Crystalline Spheres Wandering Stars Reasonable Arrangement Motions of Mars On the Revolutions The Key Perfect Solids It Fits Meet Tycho Super Nova Closely Observed Stars Perfect and Unchanging The Sleepwalker Reckoning Made Easier The Shape of the Universe Kepler’s Second Law Harmony of the Worlds The Rudolphine Tables Kepler Passes Away The Wrangler Father of the Telescope The Starry Messenger First and Alone First Warning Two Grand Systemes Going Round in Circles Conclusive Proof The First Family Beyond Understanding A Trial Two New Sciences The Finger Like Clockwork Principles of Philosophy The Whys and Wherefores The Vortex Perpetual Motion The Book of Nature A Universal Philosophy Spirit of Nature Nasty, Brutish and Short Blazing Star Swift & Furious A Trifling Book The Quantity of Quality Fatiguing the Imagination Expanding Hyperbole A State of Flux The Fall Pretty Nearly The Lucasian Chair A Bare Bodkin Darkness & Light Paradoxicall Assertion Flaws in the Glass The Crux of the Matter On Reflection Telescope Diminished Acquaintance Going Public Promotion of Knowledge Odd Detection Slave to Philosophy Put Out Utterly Lost Subtle Spirits Beyond Human Art Prisca Sapientia The Earth a Vegetable Unsociableness Action at a Distance Letter True Worship Bible a Fake False Infernal Religion The Wager A Fishy Story Little Smatterers The Best Bits Definitively Absolutely Laws of Motion First & Last Ratios A Proposition In Eccentric Conics Pound Shock Horror Error Spherical Bodies Resisting Mediums Lost in Space System of the World Various Phenomena… …Explained The Tail Universal The World of Law Fighting the Beast Glorious Revolution Friends Most Unfortunate Nobody Paying Threat to the State Connivers at Abuses & Cheats Tyburn Tree The President God is Space Newton’s Headache Gold Ring Sextant Chagrin and Mortal Anger Empirical Chronology Prophecies The End Letter on England Rights of Man Revolting French Republican Virtue Nonsense on Stilts Celestial Revolutions The Enlightenment Eppur Si Muove* The Limit Lost Planet Dual Nature At a Distance A Piercing Eye Books Why a Dog? Index “Who surpassed all men in genius” “Who surpassed all men in genius” There is a statue of Isaac Newton in the antechapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. The poet Wordsworth on seeing it bathed in moonlight from his pillow, wrote… “… Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”
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