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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... Reputations and Exemplary Lives (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000); and 'Isaac Newton lived here: sites of memory and scientific heritage', British Journal for the History of Science 33 (2000), 407– 26. Preface Sublime ...
... reputations is inseparable from the rise of science itself. During the last three centuries, our views of Newton, science and genius have all changed dramatically, and this book explores these transformations. Repeatedly made to mean ...
... reputations responds to that challenge . Newton is not just another dead white male scientist , but a major figurehead who symbolizes individual brilliance and scientific achievement . Moreover , he has helped to define what those very ...
... reputation endures. Recent biographers have portrayed Newton as an alchemical and biblical expert convinced of God's presence throughout the universe, yet he still symbolizes the committed scientist emotionlessly investigating a ...
... reputation might lead us to expect, but with a small reflecting telescope that he built himself, even grinding the lenses by hand. Only 15 cm long, Newton's telescope could magnify distant objects far more powerfully than larger models ...