Life After Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career

by Patricia Fara

Book Overview

The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade.

Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198841027
• ISBN13: 9780198841029
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"