Newton(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated
calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white
light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678,
Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets
and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science,
which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal
gravitation. Newton’s long-time research on calculus, finally made
public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European
scientists accused him of plagiarizing the work of the German
scientist Gottfried Leibniz.

　　In this third volume in the acclaimed Ackroyd’s Brief Lives
series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd provides an engaging
portrait of Isaac Newton, illuminating what we think we know about
him and describing his seminal contributions to science and
mathematics.

　　A man of wide and eclectic interests, Newton blurred the
borders between natural philosophy and speculation: he was as
passionate about astrology as astronomy and dabbled in alchemy,
while his religious faith was never undermined by his determination
to interpret a modern universe as a mathematical universe.

　　By brining vividly to life a somewhat puritanical man whose
desire to experiment and explore bordered on the obsessive, Peter
Ackroyd demonstrates the unique brilliance of Newton’s perceptions,
which changed our understanding of the world.

　　PETER ACKROYD is the biographer of William Shakespeare, T.S.
Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas Moore, and the author of the
bestselling London: The Biography. The subject of his previous
Brief Life was J.M.W. Turner. He has won the Whitbread Biography
Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award
(jointly), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is the
author of Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and his
novels include The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (winner of the
Somerset Maughn Award), Hawksmoor (Guardian Fiction Prize),
Chatterton (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and most recently
The Fall of Troy. He lives in London.

List of Illustrations
1   A Blessed Boy
2   College Boy
3  The Apple Falls
4  The Darker Art
5  The Professor
6  A Secret Faith
7  ATasteof Fire
8  Eureka!
9  The Great Work
10  The Public World
11  Hero Worship
12  The Balance Is Lost
13  Matters of Coinage
14  Female Company
15  Leader of the Royal Society
16  A Battle of Wills
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　　“A terrific piece of work… this is a wonderfully writerly
book, never less than elegant in construction and execution.”
　　–Spectator
 
　　“Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard
for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable
biography of a singular genius’.”
　　–The Times

　　“Ackroyd’s essay on [Newton] is understated and elegantly
constructed.”
　　–The Guardian

　　“Beautifully written and engaging.”
　　–BBC History