Description

In 17th-century England, a fragile child born 'too small' becomes, through discipline and obsession, the man who rewrites the rules of heaven and Earth. This book traces the life of Isaac Newton beyond the myth of the apple: his childhood marked by solitude, his intellectual rise at Cambridge, the revolution of light and color, the writing of the Principia, and the wars of ideas that pitted him against Robert Hooke and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This thirteenth installment also reveals the hidden Newton: the alchemist and theologian who worked in secret, the relentless official of the Royal Mint, and the president of the Royal Society who learned to govern reputations. Between genius and shadows, this is the story of the man who forever changed our way of understanding the universe… and of understanding ourselves.