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Isaac Newton Biography
How a Lincolnshire Farm Boy Wrote the Principia, Split Light and Remade Physics, and the Feuds Behind the Genius
German
29 b
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Isaac Newton was born three months after his father died, so small, the family said, that he could have fitted into a quart pot, and as a teenager he was pulled out of school to mind a farm he was hopeless at running. This biography follows the Lincolnshire boy through Cambridge, the plague years spent at home, the prism experiments that split white light into its colours and the Principia that remade physics. It also tells the less comfortable half of his life: the secret alchemy and unorthodox faith, the breakdown of 1693, the years running the Royal Mint, and the bitter feuds with Hooke, Flamsteed and Leibniz. Famous legends are weighed against the record, and disputed points are marked as such.
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