Newton: The Making of GeniusPan Macmillan, 06.07.2011 - 368 Seiten Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions. |
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... Richard Yeo for their detailed critiques of draft chapters, and Jim Secord for his constant interest and advice, which included reading the complete final version. In addition, I am particularly indebted to Simon Schaffer and Judith ...
... Richard Mead, who was also Newton's personal physician, hung portraits of Newton and Pope next to one another, 'near the Busts of their great Masters, the antient Greeks and Romans'. 16 Members of the burgeoning middle classes believed ...
... Richard Westfall read virtually everything available while he was preparing the most comprehensive biography of Newton that has so far appeared , yet even he deliberately focused on what he anachronistically called Newton's ' scientific ...
... Richard Steele commented, 'No Nation in the World delights so much in having their own, or Friends, or Relations Pictures . . . Face-Painting is no where so well performed as in England.'10 Newton adopted several tactics to disseminate ...
... Richard Bentley – then Master of Trinity College, Cambridge – commissioned James Thornhill's first portrait of Newton, he achieved two aims through this act of apparent generosity: he acknowledged Newton's cooperation in letting him ...