Isaac Newton is now universally celebrated as a genius of science, renowned for his innovatory work on gravity and optics. Yet Newton did not always enjoy such legendary status. His posthumous reputation has constantly changed and is riddled with contradictions.
NEWTON investigates the different ways in which Newton`s life and works have been interpreted at different times. It charts his transformation into a scientific genius, explaining the changing attitude of the scientific community towards Newton`s ideas, from Berkeley to Einstein. It also explores the making of Newton the national hero, through the myths that surround him and the many artistic and literary descriptions of him.
NEWTON tells the fascinating story of Newton`s reputation, shedding light on the growth of science generally and on our changing attitude towards our intellectual heritage.
`Fara`s brilliant book is not so much a biography as the story of a phenomenon... fascinating` Scotsman
`Fara does not debunk Newton as recent novelists have but delivers him more whole and greater than ever` Sunday Herald

Newton : The Making of Genius

Biographies & Memoirs

Patricia Fara

Professionals & Academics

Pan/Macmillan

-- Looks at men and women whose discoveries and achievements have changed the world
-- Charts, diagrams and archival photographs provide detailed historical facts

The Usborne Book of Inventors: From DaVinci to Biro

Science & Math

Struan, Reid

Technology

Scholastic. Inc.

New Oversized Scholastic Softbound

The Usborne Book of Scientists (From Archimedes to Einstein)

Offers brief profiles of scientists from ancient times to the present day, including lesser-known figures and women pioneers

The Usborne Book of Scientists From Archimedes to Einstein

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Stephen Conlin

EDC Pub.]

A study of men and women whose inventions and achievements have changed the world. Charts, diagrams and archival photographs are included with the intention of grounding the book in historical fact.

The Usborne Book of Discovery: Inventors/Scientists/Explorers

Children's Books

EDC PUBLISHING +

Patricia Fara follows the evangelists of the new science of electricity, including Benjamin Franklin and Luigi Galvani, and the ideas their demonstrations sparked in the popular culture of the 18th century.

An Entertainment for Angels (Icon Science): Electricity in the Enlightenment [Paperback] [Jun 01, 2017] Patricia Fara

History & Philosophy

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This entertaining book tells the double tale of Joseph Banks, who in the 18th century forged powerful links between science and the British state, and the father of taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus.

Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon Science): The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks [Paperback] [Jul 06, 2017] PATRICIA FARA

An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (Revolutions in Science)

An Entertainment for Angels : Electricity in the Enlightenment

Physics

Icon Books

When imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, the scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist, Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. But Enlightenment botany was fraught with sexual symbolism. And in Sweden and Britain, both imperial powers, Banks and Carl Linneaus ruled over their own small scientific empires, promoting botanical exploration to justify exploiting territories, peoples and natural resources. Regarding native peoples with disdain, these two scientific emperors portrayed the Arctic North and the Pacific Ocean as uncorrupted Edens, free from the shackles of Western sexual mores. Patricia Fara reveals how, barely concealed under Banks' and Linneaus' camouflage of noble Enlightenment, were the altogether more seedy drives to conquer, subdue and deflower - in the name of the British imperial State.

Sex, Botany and Empire : The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks

Icon Books Ltd.

Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science

Biographies

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