Originally published in 1927 this book presents the main features of Newtons life and his chief contributions to scientific knowledge. It gives the non-scientist, as well as the specialist, an insight into the life, personality and achievements of one of Englands greatest scientists and polymaths.
1.The Lincolnshire Child, 1642-1661
2. The Cambridge Student, 1661-1665
3. The Dawn of Mathematical Discovery 1665
4. The Germ of Universal
Gravitation, 1666
5. The Analysis of Light and Colour 1666
6. The Optical
Decade, 1668-1678
7. The Gravitational Decade, 1678-1687
8. The Principia,
1687
9. The Transitional Decade, 1687-1696
10. The Guardian of the Nations
Coinage, 1696-1727
11. The Doyen of British Science, 1703-1727
12. The End
1727.
Selig Brodetsky (1888-1954) was Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds and President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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