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The apple in our eye.(Newton: The Making of Genius)(Book Review)
Patricia Fara Newton: The Making of Genius. Columbia University Press, 347 pages, $27.95
I picked up this book thinking it was a biography of Newton. Thus disposed, I picked it up with some reluctance--and then, only after two or three weeks of procrastination. That Sir Isaac Newton was a tremendous genius, there is no doubt at all. There are excellent arguments for the proposition that, so far as mathematics and its physical applications are concerned, Newton's mind was the most powerful that ever existed. The story of Newton's life, however, is, to put it very mildly indeed, not enthralling. He never traveled outside eastern England. He took no part in ...
- Patricia Fara. Newton: the Making of Genius.(Book Review)
- Biography Hunter, Michael June 22, 2003 700+ words
...12806-7, $27.95. As Patricia Fara explains at the outset...yet another biography of Newton. Instead, it is an account...traverse the period from Newton's time to our own. Thus we hear how Newton was idolized in the eighteenth...
- Sisters in science: Patricia Fara calls for a more inclusive, and realistic,...
- Magazine article from: History Today Fara, Patricia May 1, 2004 700+ words
...very act of trying to break free drives her mad. But suppose Newton or Descartes or Darwin had had a clever sister? Woolf conjectured...contributions from men--but different need not mean insignificant. Patricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. This article is...
- The maestro of time: Patricia Fara marks two significant Einstein anniversaries...
- History Today Fara, Patricia April 1, 2005 700+ words
...changing papers. Einstein liked to think of himself as Newton's successor in the pantheon of scientific geniuses...immediately identified the hero who had challenged Isaac Newton--and won. Like Newton and his apple tree, Einstein himself originated...
- Newton: the Self-Made Genius. (Reviews).(Newton: The Making of Genius)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Knight, John August 1, 2002 700+ words
Newton: The Making of Genius. Patricia Fara. Macmillan. [pounds sterling...fifteen years have passed since Isaac Newton, thanks to considerable financial...genius' and the very image of Isaac Newton have all undergone a process of...
- Newton: the Making of Genius.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Science News August 14, 2004 700+ words
NEWTON: The Making of Genius PATRICIA FARA Even the youngest schoolchild is familiar with the story of Isaac Newton, the world's first great scientist...history that focuses on the rise of Newton's fame and the concept of genius...
- Newton: The Making of Genius.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Science News January 11, 2003 700+ words
PATRICIA FARA Even the smallest schoolchild...the falling apple and Isaac Newton, the world's first great...presents a cultural history of Newton that focuses on the rise of...general. As she reports, Newton was far less concerned with...
- Grappling with apple's fall.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 3, 2003 700+ words
...appealing history of the impact Isaac Newton had on western culture, "Newton: The Making of Genius," Patricia Fara takes us back to another halcyon time...science, 300 years ago, when one man - Newton - more than any other, brought us kicking...
- Historians rescue history in the celluloid age; York University conference...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 7, 2000 700+ words
...Allen, Senior Producer, CBC TV, who has his PhD in History) Isaac Newton Lived Here: Sites of Memory and Scientific Heritage (Cambridge University Prof. Patricia Fara) The conference will also feature Guy Vanderhaege, author of The Englishman...
