Newton (Ackroyd's Brief Lives) - Hardcover

A vivid portrait of one of the world's most important and influential scientists examines the contributions of Isaac Newton to the history of science and mathematics, detailing his research on calculus, formulation of the laws of motion and universal gravitation, discovery of some of the principles of light, and fascination with astrology, alchemy, theology, and more. 12,500 first printing.

PETER ACKROYD is the biographer of William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, and Thomas Moore, and the author of the bestselling London: The Biography. The subject of his previous Brief Life was J.M.W. Turner. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award (jointly), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is the author of Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, and his novels include The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (winner of the Somerset Maughn Award), Hawksmoor (Guardian Fiction Prize), Chatterton (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and most recently The Fall of Troy. He lives in London.