Never at Rest
A Biography of Isaac Newton

This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton.

Richard S. Westfall (Author)

9780521274357, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 April 1983

928 pages
23.4 x 15.5 x 4.2 cm, 1.243 kg

'Richard Westfall has done Newton proud.' The Economist

This richly detailed 1981 biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

Preface
Acknowledgments
A note about dates
Abbreviations used in footnotes
1. The discovery of a new world
2. A sober, silent, thinking lad
3. The solitary scholar
4. Resolving problems by motion
5. Anni mirabiles
6. Lucasian professor
7. Publication and crisis
8. Rebellion
9. Years of silence
10. Principia
11. Revolution
12. The Mint
13. President of the Royal Society
14. The priority dispute
15. Years of decline
Bibliographical essay
List of illustrations
Index.

Subject Areas: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]