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Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer (Helix Books) Book

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.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Sympathetic yet balanced, this intriguing portrait of the world's most famous scientist reveals truths about his life that have been ignored for 300 years. Michael White offers a erudite and readable biography which presents Newton as a genius who stood at a point in time where magic ended and science began. Photos & illustrations.

  • 0201483017
  • 9780201483017
  • Michael White
  • 9 February 1998
  • Perseus Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 416
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