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

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Peter Ackroyd. Isaac Newton. London: Chatto & Windus. 2006. 163pp.

Francesco Algarotti. Il Newtonianismo per le dame (Newton's Philosophy Explain'd for the Use of the Ladies). Naples: di Giambatista Pasquali. 1739. 303pp.

E. N. da C. Andrade. Sir Isaac Newton. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books. 1950. 144pp.

Herbert Douglas Anthony. Sir Isaac Newton. London: Abelard-Schuman. 1960. 223pp.

Peter Aughton. Newton's Apple: Isaac Newton and the English Scientific Renaissance. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2003. 215pp.

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

Léon Bloch. La Philosophie de Newton. Paris: F. Alcan. 1908. 642pp.

David Brewster. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton. London: Murray. 1831. 366pp.

Selig Brodetsky. Sir Isaac Newton: A Brief Account of His Life and Work. London: Methuen & Co.. 1927. 161pp.

Jed Z. Buchwald; I. Bernard Cohen. Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy. MIT Press. 2001. 354pp.

Gale E. Christianson. Isaac Newton. Oxford University Press. 2005. 144pp.

John Collins. Commercium Epistolicum. London: Typis Pearsonianis. 1712. 122pp.

Sir John Craig. Newton at the Mint. Cambridge University Press. 1946. 128pp.

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought. Cambridge University Press. 1991. 359pp.

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

Mordechai Feingold. The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. Oxford University Press. 2004. 218pp.

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

James Gleick. Isaac Newton. New York: Pantheon Books. 2003. 272pp.

Friedrich Graevell. Göthe im Recht gegen Newton. Berlin: Herbig. 1857. 191pp.

George Grant. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous Inventions and Discoveries. Dublin: James M'Glashan. 1849. 311pp.

Willem Jacob's Gravesande. Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy Confirmed by Experiments: An Introduction to Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. London: J. Senex and W. Taylor. 1720. 259pp.

W. J. Greenstreet. Isaac Newton, 1642-1727: A Memorial Volume. London: G. Bell. 1927. 181pp.

Niccolò Guicciardini. Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method. MIT Press. 2009. 422pp.

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

John Harrison. The Library of Isaac Newton. Cambridge University Press. 2008. 298pp.

James Jurin. The Minute Mathematician, or, The Free-Thinker No Just-Thinker. London: T. Cooper. 1735. 112pp.

Philip Kerr. Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton. New York: Three Rivers Press. 2003. 352pp.

Daniel P. Kidder. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton. New York: Carlton & Philips. 1854. 183pp.

E. F. King. A Biographical Sketch of Sir Isaac Newton. Grantham, England: S. Ridge. 1858. 118pp.

David C. Knight. Isaac Newton: Mastermind of Modern Science. London: Chatto and Windus. 1961. 153pp.

Rudolf Laemmel. Isaac Newton. Zurich: Büchergilde Gutenberg. 1957. 308pp.

Thomas Levenson. Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. 318pp.

Colin MacLaurin; Louis-Anne Lavirotte. Exposition des Découvertes Philosophiques de m. le Chevalier Newton. Paris: Durand. 1749. 422pp.

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

Frank E. Manuel. A Portrait of Isaac Newton. Harvard University Press. 1968. 478pp.

Louis Trenchard More. Isaac Newton: A Biography. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 1934. 675pp.

Robert Palter. The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton, 1666-1966. MIT Press. 1970. 351pp.

Henry Pemberton. A View of Sir Issac Newton's Philosophy. Dublin: J. Hyde, J. Smith, W. Bruce. 1728. 333pp.

Cortés Plá. Isaac Newton. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe Argentina. 1945. 264pp.

Ferdinand Rosenberger. Isaac Newton und Seine Physikalischen Principien. Leipzig, Germany: J. A. Barth. 1985. 536pp.

M. Sigorgne. Institutions Newtoniennes. Rome: Ex Typographia Gaenerosi Salomoni. 1756. 528pp.

Religious Tract Society. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. 1820. 192pp.

Elizabeth Socolow. Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton. Boston: Beacon Press. 1988. 142pp.

Harry Sootin. Isaac Newton. New York: Messner. 1955. 191pp.

Mitch Stokes. Isaac Newton. Nashville, TN: T. Nelson. 2010. 192pp.

J. W. N. Sullivan. Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. London: Macmillan and Co.. 1938. 275pp.

Beulah Tannenbaum; Myra Stillman. Isaac Newton: Pioneer of Space Mathematics. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1959. 128pp..

S. I. Vavilov. Isaak Newton. Moscow: Izdatelʹstvo Akademii. 1943. 216pp.

R. De Villamil. Newton: The Man. London: G. D. Knox. 1931. 111pp.

Voltaire. Éléments de la Philosophie de Newton. Amsterdam: E. Ledet & Co.. 1738. 399pp.

Richard S. Westfall. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge University Press. 1980. 908pp.

Michael White. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer. Reading, MA: Helix Books. 1997. 402pp.

Michael White. Coffee with Isaac Newton. London: Duncan Baird. 2008. 144pp.

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