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

Th is book examines how Isaac Newton’s reputation was utilized, and altered, by British men of science in biographies and historical studies published between 1820 and A detailed analysis of these works and the contexts in which they were produced demonstrates the contemporary signifi cance of these portraits for the scientifi c community. It is, therefore, among a number of recent ‘Reputational studies’ which argue that representations of historical fi gures refl ect the circumstances in which they are created and that the reputations of such fi gures can be used to legitimate current interests | Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Recreating Newton Rebekah Higgitt Number 2 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 .

• Tiếng Anh thương mại
• Newtonian Biography
• Genius
• Baconianism
• Controversy Revisited
• History of Science
• Historical Writings
• Folklore
• Humanities and social science
• Greek students’ historical thinking
• Students’ implicit perceptions
• Teaching history
• Secondary education