Books by Niccolò Guicciardini
“Guicciardini’s is the first synthetic book that really tries to incorporate what you could call the new Newton scholarship. The picture you get there of Newton as not so much a kind of psychopath that you get in Manuel and to some degree Westfall but rather Newton as a kind of—as Mordechai Feingold has put it—“Caltech geek”. “ Read more...
The best books on Isaac Newton
William Newman, Historian
Interviews where books by Niccolò Guicciardini were recommended
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Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton
by Richard S. Westfall -
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A Portrait of Isaac Newton
by Frank E. Manuel -
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Newton and the Origins of Civilization
by Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold -
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Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy
by Niccolò Guicciardini
The best books on Isaac Newton, recommended by William Newman
The best books on Isaac Newton, recommended by William Newman
John Maynard Keynes famously cast Isaac Newton not as the first scientist of the age of reason, but the last of the magicians. How should we interpret the million words he wrote, in secret, on alchemy? What should we make of Newton’s heretical religious views? William Newman talks us through the best books for a better understanding of the complex man who was one of the greatest physicists of all time.
