Newton
By Peter Ackroyd
By Peter Ackroyd
Category: Biography & Memoir | Science & Technology
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Apr 15, 2008 | ISBN 9780385525572
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Praise
“Newton is both impeccably researched and a wonderful read. An afternoon in the backyard hammock with ‘the grand autocrat of science.’”
–Los Angeles Times
“[Ackroyd] may well be the most prolific English author of his generation. And, which I find encouraging, he can write movingly and revealingly about Isaac Newton while being no more of a scientist or mathematician than I am.”
–Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
“Astute and beautifully written…. Not surprisingly, the prolific Mr. Ackroyd, who is the author of 12 novels as well as biographies of Dickens, Thomas More, and Shakespeare–not to mention at least four histories of London–excels at re-creating the look and feel, at once grubby and exalted, of Newton’s milieu. And Newton the man comes through splendidly in all the sheer arrogance of his driven genius.”
–The New York Sun
“The brief life of Newton meets a widespread need…. Ackroyd’s writing is a great pleasure to read.”
–The New Criterion
“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
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