The architect of modern science—Sir Isaac Newton—died on March 31st 1727. He left behind a voluminous trove of papers, yet the Newton that emerges from these manuscripts is far from a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason
Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on this day in 1642.
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
--Isaac Newton
--Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation. James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader into Newton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/60766/isaac-newton/
我們當然也可以將誤差想像成變異，
[法]豐特奈爾等《牛頓傳記五種》 趙振江譯 ，北京:商務印書館者，2007
牛頓擁有眾多篇幅不等的傳記，編者們從中選擇五篇。對每一篇傳記，寫了題解，介紹作者的生平和寫作背景。此外，還對傳中的錯誤或難解之處做了註釋，希望對讀者有所幫助。由於這些傳記從不同的方面反映牛頓的事蹟，我們附上牛頓生平大事年表，用編年的形式勾勒他一生的主要經歷。另外還編有人名和地名對照表，以供讀者查考原著。這五篇傳記除豐特奈爾的《伊薩克·牛頓爵士頌詞》的原文為法文外，其他的都是英文。
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