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　　When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated

calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white

light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678,

Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets

and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science,

which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal

gravitation. Newton’s long-time research on calculus, finally made

public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European

scientists accused him of plagiarizing the work of the German

scientist Gottfried Leibniz.

In this third volume in the acclaimed Ackroyd’s Brief Lives

series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd provides an engaging

portrait of Isaac Newton, illuminating what we think we know about

him and describing his seminal contributions to science and

mathematics.

A man of wide and eclectic interests, Newton blurred the

borders between natural philosophy and speculation: he was as

passionate about astrology as astronomy and dabbled in alchemy,

while his religious faith was never undermined by his determination

to interpret a modern universe as a mathematical universe.

By brining vividly to life a somewhat puritanical man whose

desire to experiment and explore bordered on the obsessive, Peter

Ackroyd demonstrates the unique brilliance of Newton’s perceptions,

which changed our understanding of the world.

List of Illustrations

1   A Blessed Boy

2   College Boy

3  The Apple Falls

4  The Darker Art

5  The Professor

6  A Secret Faith

7  ATasteof Fire

8  Eureka!

9  The Great Work

10  The Public World

11  Hero Worship

12  The Balance Is Lost

13  Matters of Coinage

14  Female Company

15  Leader of the Royal Society

16  A Battle of Wills

……

　　PETER ACKROYD is the biographer of William Shakespeare, T.S.

Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas Moore, and the author of the

bestselling London: The Biography. The subject of his previous

Brief Life was J.M.W. Turner. He has won the Whitbread Biography

Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award

(jointly), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is the

author of Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and his

novels include The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (winner of the

Somerset Maughn Award), Hawksmoor (Guardian Fiction Prize),

Chatterton (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and most recently

The Fall of Troy. He lives in London.

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　　“A terrific piece of work… this is a wonderfully writerly

book, never less than elegant in construction and execution.”

　　–Spectator

　　“Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard

for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable

biography of a singular genius'.”

　　–The Times

　　“Ackroyd's essay on [Newton] is understated and elegantly

constructed.”

　　–The Guardian

　　“Beautifully written and engaging.”

　　–BBC History