About the Author:
Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology.
Review:
"A lavish, lively book, it educates us in the manifold, particular, and paradoxical ways of genius. In the presence of these extraordinary documents, the work of Newton's skilled hands and speeding, inspired intellect, it would be easy to do what so many writers did in the eighteenth century:
to treat Newton himself as more than human, as someone who stood above the conflicts of his own time, one who simply saw farther and worked on a higher level than his contemporaries, and achieved what he did unaided by ordinary mortals. One of the great virtues of The Newtonian Moment is that it
refuses to do this. The manuscripts, books, images, and machines gathered here make clear, over and over again, that Newton was intimately and directly a product of his time and place."--The New York Review of Books
"This book reflects the broad appeal that Newton's fame brought to science. Mordechi Feingold makes it clear that...Newton's ultimate ascendancy is not a story of irresistible victory but a colorful saga of national prejudice, simple jealousy, ingenious technology and intellectual debate.
Feingold's lucid and cogent account proves that even where one of its chief heroes is concerned, science involves far more than a disinterested pursuit of certainty and truth."--Theodore K. Rabb, Los Angeles Times
"...lavishly illustrated and immensely entertaining... Feingold engages in his own revision of newton's autocratic image. He reveals a Newton surrounded by conflict, battling Robert Hooke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and innumerable others... Feingold demonstrates that Newton's reputation owed
much to those who could barely understand his great mathematical achievements... Feingold's work is full of insight into how Newton made the Enlightenment and what use the Enlightenment made of him."- American Scientist
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