Newton genealogy, genealogical, biographical, historical being a record of the descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, with genealogies of families descended from the immigrants, Rev. Roger Newton of Milford, Connecticut; Thomas Newton of Fairfield, Connecticut; Matthew Newton of Stonington, Connecticut; Newtons of Virginia; Newtons near Boston.

This new work by one of this century's most eminent Newtonian scholars - Rupert Hall - brings together for the first time the early eighteenth century biographical notices of Sir Isaac Newton. The centrepiece of the book is a brand new translation of Paolo Frisi's biography, the firstpublished on Newton in 1778. Also included are the biographies by Fontenelle (1727), Thomas Birch (1738), Charles Hutton (1795), and John Conduitt. Each translation is accompanied by a commentary by Professor Hall. A brief biography and a bibliography of Newton have also been included for thereader. This book will be an extremely valuable addition to the works on Newton, and provide a fascinating text for historians of science

Presents a brief biography of Isaac Newton, providing information on his childhood, his education, and his achievements in science.

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This volume collects together Newton's principal philosophical writings for the first time.

Newton is widely considered in history as the most influential scientist. He is best known for his discovery of gravity and the subsequent laws of motion that he meticulously theorized. School children around the world are acquainted with the popular legend about an apple falling on Newton’s head which led to the famous discovery of gravity. However that colourful story and the preoccupation with Newton’s work in physics tends to make people forget Newton’s work in other fields. This biography captures both the personal life as well as the career of Isaac Newton devoted entirely to scientific pursuit. It presents a complete picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian and the public figure. Newton was very religious, and intently studied the Bible and even occult practices and theories. Newton wrote at length on these subjects, which fascinated him so much that he spent more time writing about them than he did science and mathematics. This biography is an interesting journey through his life shedding light on a personality which towers the scientific world to this day.

In this stimulating investigation, Gideon Freudenthal has linked social history with the history of science by formulating an interesting proposal: that the supposed influence of social theory may be seen as actual through its co herence with the process of formation of physical concepts. The reinterpre tation of the development of science in the seventeenth century, now widely influential, receives at Freudenthal's hand its most persuasive statement, most significantly because of his attention to the theoretical form which is charac teristic. of classical Newtonian mechanics. He pursues the sources of the parallels that may be noted between that mechanics and the dominant philosophical systems and social theories of the time; and in a fascinating development Freudenthal shows how a quite precise method - as he descriptively labels it, the 'analytic-synthetic method' - which underlay the Newtonian form of theoretical argument, was due to certain interpretive premisses concerning particle mechanics. If he is right, these depend upon a particular stage of con ceptual achievement in the theories of both society and nature; further, that the conceptual was generalized philosophically; but, strikingly, Freudenthal shows that this concept-formation itself was linked to the specific social relations of the times of Newton and Hobbes.