Physicist, Mathematician (4-Jan-1643 — 31-Mar-1727)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

David Berlinski. Newton's Gift. The Free Press. 2000. 217pp.

David Berlinski. Newton's Gift: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World. New York: The Free Press. 2000. 217pp.

B. J. T. Dobbs. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. Cambridge University Press. 2002. 376pp.

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. Cambridge University Press. 1991.

Patricia Fara. Newton: The Making of Genius. Columbia University Press. 2004. 384pp.

Harald Fritzsch. An Equation That Changed the World: Newton, Einstein and the Theory of Relativity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1994.

A. Rupert Hall. Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought. Cambridge University Press. 1996. 468pp.

Frank E. Manuel. Isaac Newton: Historian. Belknap Press. 1963. 328pp.

Richard S. Westfall. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge University Press. 1983. 928pp.

Michael White. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1997.

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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1077)

6. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature (p.286)

7. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.727)

8. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.103)

9. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.367)

10. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.499)

11. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.356)

12. Who's Who in Europe, 1450-1750 (p.220)

13. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.377)

14. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.140)

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