Abstract
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 them, and he does not hesitate to tell his opinion, even if unfavourable. We have got into a period of biography where an unfavourable opinion has rather a preference for expression. But Prof. More is not that kind of biographer. He has a respect, almost a love for Newton, though far “this side idolatry”, and deliberates a long time before he comes to an unfavourable opinion.
Isaac Newton: a Biography.
By Louis Trenchard More. Pp. xiii + 675. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.) 18s. net.
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S., R. Isaac Newton: a Biography. Nature 135, 3–5 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135003a0
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