Book ID: CBB000773719

Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science (2007)

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Higgitt, Rebekah (Author)


Pickering & Chatto


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: ix + 286 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Explores the way that debates over Newton's character helped to develop scholarship in the history of science.


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Review Noakes, Richard (2008) Review of "Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science". Victorian Studies (p. 168). unapi

Review Newman, William (2008) Review of "Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 171). unapi

Review Henry, John (2009) Review of "Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 176). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Charles M. Wynn
Sidney Harris
Tom Sharpe
Arthur W. Wiggins
Abrams, Ellen
Kevin J. Edwards
Concepts
Personality of the scientist
Biographies
Science, general histories
History of science, as a discipline
Historiography
Mathematics
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
Early modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
United States
Russia
Portugal
Germany
France
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