基本信息
完整書名為Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton。作者為Richard S. Westfall。由Cambridge University Press於1983年4月29日出版。
其平裝版ISBN為9780521274357,電子書ISBN為9781107298712。全書共928頁。裝幀為平裝(Paperback)。
內容簡介
《永不止息》是美國著名科學史家理察·S·韋斯特福爾所著的權威牛頓傳記。該書全面捕捉了
艾薩克·牛頓的個人生活與科學生涯,呈現了牛頓作為人、科學家、哲學家、神學家和公眾人物的完整形象。
敘述核心圍繞
牛頓在科學上的主要成就展開,詳細描述了
微積分的發展、改變光學科學方向的實驗,以及最終導致
萬有引力定律發現的天體動力學研究。全書共分15章,按時間順序從牛頓的早年生活、
劍橋歲月、科學發現,一直記述到他晚年擔任皇家鑄幣廠廠長和
皇家學會會長等公職生涯。
作者簡介
理察·S·韋斯特福爾(Richard S. Westfall,1924-1996)是美國著名科學史家,
印第安納大學歷史學與科學史教授,是17世紀
科學革命特別是牛頓研究領域的傑出學者。他於1985年獲得科學史研究的最高獎薩頓獎章。其著作除《Never at Rest》外,還包括《Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England》、《The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanism and Mechanics》、《Force in Newton's Physics》等。
出版信息
《Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton》由
劍橋大學出版社(Cambridge University Press)出版。其精裝初版於1980年問世。1981年推出了包含新前言的平裝版。該書於1983年4月29日以“劍橋平裝本圖書館”(Cambridge Paperback Library)系列再次出版平裝版,副標題為“A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge Paperback Library)”,ISBN為9780521274357,共928頁。本書還擁有電子版(ebook),EISBN為9781107298712。
作品目錄
本書目錄包含前言、致謝、日期說明、注釋縮寫及17個章節。章節標題包括“The discovery of a new world”、“A sober, silent, thinking lad”、“The solitary scholar”、“Resolving problems by motion”、“Anni mirabiles”、“Lucasian professor”、“Publication and crisis”、“
Rebellion”、“Years of silence”、“
Principia”、“Revolution”、“The Mint”、“President of the Royal Society”、“The priority dispute”、“Years of decline”。最後附有參考文獻、插圖列表和索引。
內容簡介
This richly detailed biography captures both the personal life and the scientific career of Isaac Newton, presenting a fully rounded picture of Newton the man, the scientist, the philosopher, the theologian, and the public figure. Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation. Richard S. Westfall (1924-1996), one of the foremost Newton scholars of his generation, was Professor of History and of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His publications include: Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England (1958, 1973), The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanism and Mechanics (1971), Force in Newton's Physics: the Science of Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century (1971), Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (1980), Essays on the Trial of Galileo (1989), and The Life of Isaac Newton (1993). In 1983 the History of Scie