عنوان

The Newton papers :

شابک

0199951055

شابک

9780199951055

شابک اشتباه

0199951047

شابک اشتباه

1306545706

شابک اشتباه

9780199951048

شابک اشتباه

9781306545709

عنوان اصلي

The Newton papers :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the strange and true odyssey of Isaac Newton's manuscripts /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sarah Dry.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2014]

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index.

متن يادداشت

Prologue: Keynes at the sale -- The death of Newton -- The inheritors -- Petrifying Newton -- The madness of Newton -- The meanness of Newton -- Getting to know the knowers -- Wrangling with Newton -- Newton divided -- English books, American buyers -- The dealers -- The Sotheby sale -- The revealed Newton -- The Newton industry -- The search for unity -- Epilogue: The ultimate value.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"When Isaac Newton died at 85 without a will on March 20, 1727, he left a mass of disorganized papers--upwards of 8 million words--that presented an immediate challenge to his heirs. Most of these writings, on subjects ranging from secret alchemical formulas to impassioned rejections of the Holy Trinity to notes and calculations on his core discoveries in calculus, universal gravitation, and optics, were summarily dismissed by his heirs as "not fit to be printed." Rabidly heretical, alchemically obsessed, and possibly even mad, the Newton presented in these papers threatened to undermine not just his personal reputation but the status of science itself. As a result, the private papers of the world's greatest scientist remained hidden to all but a select few for over two hundred years. In The Newton Papers, Sarah Dry divulges the story of how this secret archive finally came to light--and the complex and contradictory man it revealed. Covering a broad swath of history, Dry explores who controlled Newton's legacy, who helped uncover him, and what, finally, we know about him today, nearly three hundred years after his death. The Newton Papers presents the eclectic group of collectors, scholars, and scientists who were motivated to track down and collect Newton's private thoughts and obsessions, many of whom led extraordinary lives themselves--from economist John Maynard Keynes to Abraham Yahuda, a friend of Albert Einstein and key figure in the founding of Israel. The 300-year history of the disappearance, dispersal and eventual rediscovery of Newton's papers exposes how Newton has been made, and re-made, at the hands of unique and idiosyncratic individuals, reflecting the changing status of science over the centuries"--

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

MIL

شماره انبار

585821

عنوان

Newton papers

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780199951048

موضوع مستند نشده

Newton, Isaac,1642-1727-- Manuscripts.

موضوع مستند نشده

Newton, Isaac,1642-1727-- Psychology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Newton, Isaac, 1643-1727

موضوع مستند نشده

Newton, Isaac,1642-1727.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

HISTORY-- Europe-- Great Britain.

موضوع مستند نشده

Manuskript

موضوع مستند نشده

Psychology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Schrifttum

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Energy.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Mechanics-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Physics-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science.

موضوع مستند نشده

Textgeschichte

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 024000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 041000

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 055000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

کد سيستم

کد سيستم

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dry, Sarah,1974-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822093447.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y