Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books) Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White’s Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing a
| TITLE | : | Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.85 (994 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0201483017 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 416 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 1997-12-31 |
| GENRE | : |
Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White’s Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.
EDITORIAL :
Science writer Michael White's subtitle, The Last Sorcerer, echoes John Maynard Keynes's assertion in 1942 that Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was not the Olympian rationalist portrayed by his worshipful early biographers. Newton was a great scientist, the author acknowledges; he was also an "obsessive, driven mystic," deeply involved in the pseudoscience of alchemy, subscriber to a heretical sect of Christianity, and damaged survivor of childhood traumas that rendered him a difficult, egotistical, quarrelsome adult. White makes recent research accessible to the general reader in lucid prose that knocks the academic dust off a towering historical figure.
REVIEW :
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