AT last we have an adequate biography of Newton. Prof. More would not wish us to say it was perfect-that would have been impossible-but he has spent seven years reading the documents and considering ...

The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts. By Sarah Dry. Oxford University Press; 272 pages; $29.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk FEW scientists have had the ...

I picked up this book thinking it was a biography of Newton. Thus disposed, I picked it up with some reluctance—and then, only after two or three weeks of procrastination. That Sir Isaac Newton was a ...