The Well-read Naturalist
strange behaviors
Most of us likely first heard the name Isaac Newton when we were in primary school. For some, it may have been in a classroom; for others it may have been while viewing a television program – most likely a cartoon. However, in most all instances, I’d be willing to wager that the name was connected with a falling apple. As we grew, the caricature of the man in the long coat and knee-length breeches sitting beneath a tree and being brained by a falling pippin likely gave way to the image of Newton as an extre
Fortunately, there are scholars diligently seeking to uncover and assemble as accurate a portrait as can be achieved of Newton in all his seemingly contradictory aspects; one such scholar being Prof. Niccolò Guicciardini of the University of Milan, whose book Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy offers interested readers a particularly well-written and well-illustrated portrait of Newton the mathematician, Newton the alchemist, Newton the theologian, Newton the cosmologist, and perhaps most overlooked, Newto
November 20, 2022
The Well-read Naturalist
strange behaviors