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Carregando... Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton's London Career (edição: 2021)de Patricia Fara (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Mixed feelings about this. Quite a revelation how Newton spent 30 years of his life as supervisor and then Master of the Mint in London, scheming to ingratiate himself with “people of quality“ and the monarchy, and also as a not very benevolent president of the Royal Society. However, a lot of material about the appalling moral deficiencies of the English economy at the time, founded as it was on the slave trade. Very valid points, but maybe only tangiently related to the story of Newton's life in London. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Presents Newton as a wealthy, ambitious Londoner with international connections, challenging the prevailing view of Newton as a solitary, reclusive genius. A unique narrative structure based on a Hogarth's painting 'The Indian Emperor', incorporating iconographic evidence to identify Newton as a participant in aristocratic metropolitan circles. Relates Newton and his science to Britain's imperial networks and the African slave trade, exposing Britain's greatest scientific hero as a participant in global trading based on slavery. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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