Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Jean-Baptiste Biot's ‘Newton’ and its Translation (1822–1829)
- 2 David Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton (1831): Defending the Hero
- 3 Francis Baily's Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed (1835)
- 4 Newtonian Studies and the History of Science 1835–1855
- 5 David Brewster's Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855): The ‘Regretful Witness’
- 6 The ‘Mythical’ and the ‘Historical’ Newton
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix: Translations of Quotations from Biot's ‘Newton’ in Chapter 1
- Works Cited
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Introduction
- 1 Jean-Baptiste Biot's ‘Newton’ and its Translation (1822–1829)
- 2 David Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton (1831): Defending the Hero
- 3 Francis Baily's Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed (1835)
- 4 Newtonian Studies and the History of Science 1835–1855
- 5 David Brewster's Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855): The ‘Regretful Witness’
- 6 The ‘Mythical’ and the ‘Historical’ Newton
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix: Translations of Quotations from Biot's ‘Newton’ in Chapter 1
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Recreating NewtonNewtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science, pp. 275 - 286Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014