Brief Lives 3 - Newton
(Sprache: Englisch)
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for...
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for invention'. This book demonstrates his perceptions, which changed our world forever.
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, Wilkie Collins and Thomas More and of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Ackroyd
- 192 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13 x 19,9 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN-10: 0099287382
- ISBN-13: 9780099287384
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.05.2007
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Englisch
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"A terrific piece of work ... this is a wonderfully writerly book, never less than elegant in construction and execution" -- Marcus Berkmann Spectator "Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable biography of a singular genius" -- Nigel Hawkes The Times "Beautifully written and engaging" -- Allan Chapman BBC History "Ackroyd has a fine eye for the intimate, thorny details that breathe life into biographies" Herald
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