Sir David Brewster — himself a distinguished optical physicist — wrote the nineteenth century’s standard Life of Sir Isaac Newton: the Lincolnshire boyhood, the miracle years of the plague, the Principia and the Opticks, the quarrels with Hooke, Flamsteed and Leibniz, and the long imperial reign over the Royal Society.
Brewster writes as a physicist who venerates the science and a biographer honest about the man. Download the free EPUB for the classic portrait of the mind that, in Wordsworth’s phrase, voyaged strange seas of thought alone.