Isaac Newton
Subtitle: The Last Sorcerer
By: Michael White.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Newton, Isaac, -- Sir, -- 1642-1727; Newton, Isaac, -- Sir, -- 1642-1727 -- Influence; Alchemy -- Influence; Physics -- History; Science -- History; Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Desertion
label: Chapter 1; title: The Changing View of Matter and Energy
label: Chapter 2; title: Academia
label: Chapter 3; title: Astronomy and Mathematics Before Newton
label: Chapter 4; title: A Toe in the Water
label: Chapter 5; title: The Search for the Philosophers' Stone
label: Chapter 6; title: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
label: Chapter 7; title: Feuds
label: Chapter 8; title: To the Principia
label: Chapter 9; title: Breakdown
label: Chapter 10; title: AMetamorphosis
label: Chapter 11; title: Old men's Battles
label: Chapter 12; title: A Question of Priority
label: Chapter 13; title: Joining the Ancients
label: Chapter 14; title: References; title: index