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Nature 420, 270-271 (21 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/420270a

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The many faces of Newton

George Rousseau1

This is not another biography of Isaac Newton. Instead, Patricia Fara, an experienced author on the history of early modern science, has reconstructed Newton's images — scientific, professional, personal, religious and domestic — for the light they shed on the public perception of great scientists.