托马斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美国学者、科学作家、纪录片制片人，曾获艾美奖（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奖（Peabody Award）。除本书外，还有如下四部著作出版：《爱因斯坦在柏林》《针锋相对：乐器的科学史》《冰河时代：地球的气候、科学与生命》《寻找火神：爱因斯坦如何颠覆地球，发现相对论，解密宇宙》。现与妻儿同居于波士顿郊外。

托马斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美国学者、科学作家、纪录片制片人，曾获艾美奖（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奖（Peabody Award）。除本书外，还有如下四部著作出版：《爱因斯坦在柏林》《针锋相对：乐器的科学史》《冰河时代：地球的气候、科学与生命》《寻找火神：爱因斯坦如何颠覆地球，发现相对论，解密宇宙》。现与妻儿同居于波士顿郊外。

托马斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美国学者、科学作家、纪录片制片人，曾获艾美奖（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奖（Peabody Award）。除本书外，还有如下四部著作出版：《爱因斯坦在柏林》《针锋相对：乐器的科学史》《冰河时代：地球的气候、科学与生命》《寻找火神：爱因斯坦如何颠覆地球，发现相对论，解密宇宙》。现与妻儿同居于波士顿郊外。

托马斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美国学者、科学作家、纪录片制片人，曾获艾美奖（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奖（Peabody Award）。除本书外，还有如下四部著作出版：《爱因斯坦在柏林》《针锋相对：乐器的科学史》《冰河时代：地球的气候、科学与生命》《寻找火神：爱因斯坦如何颠覆地球，发现相对论，解密宇宙》。现与妻儿同居于波士顿郊外。

In 1695, Isaac Newton, already renowned as the greatest mind of his age, made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner...(展开全部)

In 1695, Isaac Newton—already renowned as the greatest mind of his age—made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another Kind, the budding criminal William...(展开全部)

In 1695, Isaac Newton, already renowned as the greatest mind of his age, made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner...(展开全部)

In 1695, Isaac Newton—already renowned as the greatest mind of his age—made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majesty’s Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another Kind, the budding criminal William...(展开全部)

A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rent a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he need, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What possessed him to write that strange letter to his friend John Locke? But in the long seeping summer days, old sloth and present realit...(展开全部)

Translated from the Russian by E.J.F. Primrose "Remarkable little book." -SIAM REVIEW V.I. Arnold, who is renowned for his lively style, retraces the beginnings of mathematical analysis and theoretical physics in the works (and the intrigues!) of the great scientists of the 17th century. Some of Huygens' and Newton's ideas. several centuries ahead of their time, were developed ...(展开全部)