La Perruque de Newton, Paperback Book, By: Jean-Pierre Luminet
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La Perruque de Newton, Paperback Book, By: Jean-Pierre Luminet
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What is hiding under Isaac Newton's tall, heavy wig? An exceptional brain of course, which unveiled the laws of universal gravitation, and published the greatest scientific book in history. But also a bald head, as much by the sulphur and mercury vapours of his alchemical experiences as by the sleepless nights spent rereading the Scriptures to calculate the date of the Apocalypse. The founder of modern and rational science has, in fact, devoted more time to conducting alchemical experiments, to studying theology than to practicing the natural sciences.
Newton's Wig paints a stunning portrait of an extraordinarily complex man who, after a lonely childhood, grew touchy, angry, vindictive, and deeply obsessed with God. This Enlightenment-acclaimed figure of reason, also keen on esoteric research, has proven to be a ruthless director of the Mint and a tyrannical president of the Royal Society. He will be buried like a king after a long life of eighty-five years in which he never knew a woman. The hidden face of an exceptional scientific genius.
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- Books Author: Jean-Pierre Luminet
- Number Of Pages: 450
- Language: French
- Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
- Books Category: Literature & Fiction
- Book Format: Paperback
- Books_ISBN: 270962415X
- Other Feature 2: Weight: 465 grams
- Other Feature 3: Size: 140 x 225 mm
- Publication Date: March 03, 2010