A collection of the many biographies of scientist Isaac Newton, demonstrating the ways in which his reputation continued to develop in the centuries after his death. It includes private letters, poetry and memoranda, and explores the debate over Newton's reputation, work and personal life.
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Conventions for Manuscript
Transcription, Trinity College and Fitzwilliam notebooks: Short-Writing
(1662); Expenses (1661-8), John Flamsteed, MS material on Newton, John
Flamsteed, Suppressed preface of the Historia Coelestis (1717), John
Conduitt, Material, [ Bernard de Fontenelle], Éloge (trans., 1728), Abraham
de Moivre, Memorandum (1727), John Conduitt, Material II, Henry Pemberton, A
View of Sir Isaac Newtons Philosophy (1728), William Whiston, View of Newton
from his Collection of Authentick Records (1728), John Conduitt, Material
III, Abbé Conti, Account of 1715 interview with Newton, William Stukeley,
Memoirs, Editorial Notes
Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes, Rebekah Higgitt
