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‎Isaac Newton - Adventurer in Thought‎

‎Blackwell , Blackwell Science Biographies Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1992 Book condition, Etat : Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's red and white printed duts-jacket, illustrated by a portrait of Newton at the end of his life grand In-8 1 vol. - 483 pages‎

‎very few black and white illustrations and figures 1st edition, 1992 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of figures, General editor's preface, Foreword, xv, Text, 468 pages - The hopeful youth, 1642-1664 - The prime of my age for invention, 1664-1667 - Widening horizons, 1667-1669 - The professor of mathematics, 1669-1673 - Publication and polemic, 1672-1678 - Life in Cambridge, 1675-1685 - The chemical philosopher, 1669-1695 - The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1679-1687 - Private and public life, 1685-1696 - Fluxions and fury, 1677-1712 - Opticks, or a Treatise of Light, 1687-1704 - Life in London, 1696-1704 - A man of authority and learning, 1692-1727 - Later books, 1706-1726 - Kensington, 1725-1727 - Appendices : Newton's Alchemical studies and his idea of the atomic structure of matter - Newton's portraits - Newton's London homes - Jonathan Swift and Catherine Barton - The fate of Newxton's paper and his library - Notes, bibliography and index - Alfred Rupert Hall (or Rupert Hall) (26 July 1920 5 February 2009) was a prominent British historian of science, known as editor of a collection of Isaac Newton's unpublished scientific papers (1962), and Newton's correspondence, in 1977. (source : Wikipedia) near fine copy of the first edition, 1992, hardcover under D.-J, no markings‎