An intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century masterwork that set down the laws of motion and universal gravitation and ushered in modern physics
Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient...
A long afternoon: Opposition, enmity, and Egyptian hieroglyphs In the summer of 1828, the natural scientist and physician Thomas Young spent an afternoon with Jean-Fran莽ois Champollion, the scholar who, six years earlier, had announced a system for reading Egyptian hieroglyphs, considerably complicating Young鈥檚 ...Read More
