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Isaac Newton Booklist

 

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Fiction

• The Newton Letter
  Author: Banville, John
  Publisher: Warner $ 8.99 ISBN: 0446392839 Date: 1991
  Updated 11.2.05
• Newton's Cannon: Book One of The Age of Unreason
  Author: Keyes, J. Gregory
  Publisher: Del Rey $ 14 ISBN: 0345406052 Date: 1998
  Following his highly acclaimed debut novel, The Waterborn, and its sequel, The Blackgod, Keyes now offers a richly imagined new epic--part 18th-century history, part sorcery, and entirely irresistible.
  Also: A Calculus of Angels (1999) and Empire of Unreason (2000)
  Updated 11.2.05
• Dark Matter
  Author: Kerr, Philip
  Publisher: Crown $ 24 ISBN: 0609609815 Date: 2002
  PW Booklist Library Journal
  As Dark Matter opens in 1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London--not as a prisoner, but as assistant to Sir Isaac Newton, renowned scientist. Newton has been appointed by the King to uncover a ring of counterfeiters. Ellis lacks Sir Isaac's erudite mind, but he is quick with a pistol and proves an invaluable sidekick to the great scientist/sleuth.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Historical Mysteries
  Updated 8.16.02

Nonfiction

• Isaac Newton
  Author: Gleick, James
  Publisher: Pantheon $ 22.95 ISBN: 0375422331 Date: 2003
  LJ
  From one of our foremost science writers comes a portrait of the scientific mind that glimpsed more of the truth than perhaps any other and that first articulated the essence of what we know.
  Updated 11.1.05
• Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
  Author: White, Michael
  Publisher: Perseus $ 27 ISBN: 0201483017 Date: 1998
  Booklist Kirkus LJ
  Sympathetic yet balanced, this intriguing portrait of the world's most famous scientist reveals truths about his life that have been ignored for 300 years. Michael White offers a erudite and readable biography which presents Newton as a genius who stood at a point in time where magic ended and science began.
  Updated 11.2.05