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Beschreibung
The untold story of Newton's private papers, hidden for centuries, sold for a pittance and then painstakingly reconstructed to reveal a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend.
The untold story of Newton's private papers, hidden for centuries, sold for a pittance and then painstakingly reconstructed to reveal a man altogether stranger and more complicated than the genius of legend.
Über den Autor
Sarah Dry is the author of Curie: A Life and has also written on epidemics, global health, and the history of meteorology. She is a former research fellow at the London School of Economics and the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Prologue: Keynes at the sale

  • 1. The Death of Newton

  • 2. The Inheritors

  • 3. Petrifying Newton

  • 4. The Madness of Newton

  • 5. The Meanness of Newton

  • 6. Getting to Know the Knowers

  • 7. Wrangling with Newton

  • 8. Newton Divided

  • 9. English Books, American Buyers

  • 10. The Dealers

  • 11. The Sotheby Sale

  • 12. The Revealed Newton

  • 13. The Newton Industry

  • 14. The Search for Unity

  • Epilogue: The Ultimate Value

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Technik allg.
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190931582
ISBN-10: 0190931582
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dry
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Dry
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.05.2019
Gewicht: 0,313 kg
Artikel-ID: 115354166

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