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Indlæser... Isaac Newton, The Asshole Who Reinvented the Universeaf Florian Freistetter
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. A very entertaining piece of work. The author succeeded in picturing one of the most brilliant man out of history as a human been with its shortages without minimizing his astonishing influence on science, even today. You can read it fluent without the need to known something about science. You get some insight in the working of the scientific community in the 17th century and the way scientist communicated with each other in that time. As a reader you get some view of the realisations of Isaac Newton, understanding them is something else but at least you get a glimp of his genius. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A blunt and humorous profile of Isaac Newton focusing on his disagreeable personality and showing that his offputting qualities were key to his scientific breakthroughs. Isaac Newton may have been the most important scientist in history, but he was a very difficult man. Put more bluntly, he was an asshole, an SOB, or whatever epithet best describes an abrasive egomaniac. In this colorful profile of the great man--warts and all--astronomer Florian Freistetter shows why this damning assessment is inescapable. Newton's hatred of fellow scientist Robert Hooke knew no bounds and he was strident in expressing it. He stole the work of colleague John Flamsteed, ruining his career without a second thought. He carried on a venomous battle with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the invention of calculus, vilifying him anonymously while the German scientist was alive and continuing the attacks after he died. All evidence indicates that Newton was conniving, sneaky, resentful, secretive, and antisocial. Compounding the mystery of his strange character is that he was also a religious fanatic, a mystery-monger who spent years studying the Bible and predicted the apocalypse. While documenting all of these unusual traits, the author makes a convincing case that Newton would have never revolutionized physics if he hadn't been just such an obnoxious person. This is a fascinating character study of an astounding genius and--if truth be told--an almighty asshole as well. No library descriptions found. |
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