Newton's gift : how Sir Isaac Newton unlocked the system of the world /
David Berlinski.
- New York : Free Press, c2000.
- xviii, 217 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
In the Year that Galileo Died -- An Escape from the Plow -- The Infinite -- The Special Instrument -- Newton in His Prime -- The Field of Rancor -- A Good Question -- A Study in Starkness -- A Loan from the Future -- The Orb of the Moon -- The System of the World -- The Captive of His Camouflage -- Master of the Mint -- The Defile -- The Quest -- Descent into Detail.
Discusses seventeenth-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton's life, focusing on his "system of the world" and his pioneering of mathematical physics, which changed science forever.