RECREATING NEWTON: NEWTONIAN BIOGRAPHY AND THE MAKING OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY OF SCIENCE

RECREATING NEWTON: NEWTONIAN BIOGRAPHY AND THE MAKING OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY OF SCIENCE SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Series Editor: Bernard Lightman TITLES IN THIS SERIES Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820–1858 James Elwick FORTHCOMING TITLES The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain Jessica Ratcliff Medicine and Modernism: A Biography of Sir Henry Head L. S. Jacyna Science and Eccentricity: Collecting, Writing and Performing Science for Early Nineteenth-Century Audiences Victoria Carroll www.pickeringchatto.com/scienceculture RECREATING NEWTON: NEWTONIAN BIOGRAPHY AND THE MAKING OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORY OF SCIENCE BY Rebekah Higgitt LONDON PICKERING & CHATTO 2007 Published by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH 2252 Ridge Road, Brookfield, Vermont 05036-9704, USA www.pickeringchatto.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher. © Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited 2007 © Rebekah Higgitt 2007 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Higgitt, Rebekah Recreating Newton: Newtonian biography and the making of nineteenth-century history of science. – (Science and culture in the nineteenth century) 1. Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642–1727 2. Brewster, David, Sir, 1781–1868 3. Scientists – Biography – History and criticism 4. Science – Great Britain – History – 17th century – Historiography 5. Biography as a literary form 6. Great Britain – Intellectual life – 19th century I. Title 530’.092 ISBN-13: 9781851969067 ∞ This publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standard for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Printed in the United Kingdom at Athenaeum Press Ltd, Gateshead ... - tailieumienphi.vn