
Isaac Newton
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Narrated by:
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Allan Corduner
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By:
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James Gleick
In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work in physics, in optics, and in calculus. He makes us see the old intuitive, alchemical universe out of which Newton's mathematics first arose and shows us how Newton's ideas have altered all forms of understanding from history to philosophy. And he gives us a moving account of the conflicting impulses that pulled at this man's heart: his quiet longings, his rage, his secrecy, the extraordinary subtleties of a personality that were mirrored in the invisible forces he first identified as the building blocks of science. More than biography, more than history, more than science, Isaac Newton tells us how, through the mind of one man, we have come to know our place in the cosmos.
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Critic reviews
"Gleick renders a wonderful impression of the icon's mind." (Booklist)
"Allan Corduner's narration is a pleasure to listen to." (AudioFile)
"The extraordinary breadth of Newton's interests is brilliantly delineated by Gleick. Newton the man emerges from the shadows." (The New York Times Book Review)
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What made the experience of listening to Isaac Newton the most enjoyable?
Newtons character and life is so interesting. Being simultaneusly the greatest scientist ever and one of the most pityfull character is always a great puzzlement for meWho was your favorite character and why?
Oldenburg because he was a good "diplomat"What does Allan Corduner bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I love audiobooks since it is so enjoyble to be able to do something else (go shopping/cleaning...) but I can't pin point what Corduner contributed. I suppouse one really notices is the reader is bad --> Corduner has to be in my opinion good.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Newton being so full of hate and vile as to make "ananymous" letters defending himself.Any additional comments?
Isaac Newton is such character that any book written on him is bound to be interesting.Semi god who was just a half human?
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Good but Brief overview of Newton's career
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Could have had more detail in some areas.
Interesting
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Sensacional.
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Recommended for anyone who wants to be guided through a world where the concepts of Gravity and Physics were mysterious and vague. To learn about the one Keynes called “not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians”.
Also recommended for fans of James Gleick, one of the premier writers on the natural world and the history of its study who is writing today. The narration by Allan Corduner is perfect. I’m glad they chose to have it narrated by an English actor rather than American.
The last of the Magicians
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An exceedingly good biography of Newton.
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His real life
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now I know more about this guy
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Brilliant!
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