Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career
Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career
by Patricia Fara
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198841027 | 287 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
by Patricia Fara
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198841027 | 287 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked. Enmeshed in Enlightenment politics and social affairs, Newton participated in the linked spheres of early science and imperialist capitalism. Instead of the quiet cloisters and dark libraries of