Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science

Rebekah Higgitt

Recreating Newton

Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science

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Rebekah Higgitt

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781851965472

Subjects:: History, History of Science: General Interest

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Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the 'scientist'. At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography. Higgitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.

"‘meticulously researched ... explores an aspect of nineteenth-century Newtonianism that will reward scholars of Victorian science, historiography, biography, and literature.’"

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Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

CONTENTS
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-vii

Dedication
pp viii-viii

List of Illustrations and Tables
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-18

1 - Jean-Baptiste Biot's ‘Newton’ and its Translation (1822–1829)
pp 19-42

2 - David Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton (1831): Defending the Hero
pp 43-68

3 - Francis Baily's Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed (1835)
pp 69-98

4 - Newtonian Studies and the History of Science 1835–1855
pp 99-128

5 - David Brewster's Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton (1855): The ‘Regretful Witness’
pp 129-158

6 - The ‘Mythical’ and the ‘Historical’ Newton
pp 159-186

Conclusion
pp 187-194

Notes
pp 195-246

Appendix: Translations of Quotations from Biot's ‘Newton’ in Chapter 1
pp 247-252

Works Cited
pp 253-274

Index
pp 275-286

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