Michael White, author of an award-winning biography of Newton, captures the essence of this prickly genius. Most recently, White co-wrote the international bestseller Private down Under, with James Patterson. Join him for a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science You’ll discover that there was far more to Sir Isaac than his great discoveries. He has also written numerous novels under pseudonyms, including the E-Force trilogy as Sam Fisher, and The Titanic Enigma, as Tom west.

Reading age 10 - 13 years Print length 416 pages Language English Lexile measure 1510L Dimensions 6 x 1. His novels include: The Art of Murder, The Borgia Ring, The Medici Secret, and Equinox. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael Whites Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began. White also collaborated with John Gribbin on 'A Life in Science' Series, featuring biographies of Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin. Among his non-fiction works are: Coffee with Newton, Galileo Antichrist: A Biography, The Fruits of War, Tolkien: A Biography, Leonardo: The First Scientist, and Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer.

From 1984 to 1991, he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer, of both fiction and non-fiction. He has been a science editor of British GQ and a columnist for the Sunday Express in London. He was born in 1959 and studied at King's College London. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9781857027068 Number of pages: 416 Weight: 306 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26 mm You may also be interested in.Michael White is a British writer. In this revelatory biography, White paints an original picture of Isaac Newton completely at variance with the traditional portrait. How for example could Newton's apparent empiricism be married with his interest in alchemy and magic? What had inspired him in his discoveries? How did he reconcile his scientific discoveries with his religious faith? And, most of all, who was this man who, historians tell us, remained a virgin all his life and who seemed to be an argumentative ego maniac on the one hand and a kindly old man on the other?

Yet the traditional version of his life fails to tell, by some considerable margin, the full story. As creator of the theory of gravity, calculus, modern theories of light and devisor of the three laws of mechanics, his methods are perceived as the genesis of modern science. In this 'ground breaking biography' Michael White destroys the myths of the life of Isaac Newton and reveals a portrait of the scientist as the last sorcerer.Īccording to traditional accounts, Newton was the first modern scientist. A new biography of Isaac Newton that reveals the extraordinary influence that the study of alchemy had on the greatest Early Modern scientific discoveries.

Isaac Newton by Michael White