Abstract
IN 1728 Henry Pemberton published “A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy”, which gave a popular account of the contents of the “Principia” and of the “Opticks”. To it the author prefaced “a copy of verses on Sir Isaac Newton, which I have just received from a young Gentleman, whom I am proud to reckon among the number of my dearest friends”. The young gentleman was Richard Glover, best known to students of eighteenth century literature as the writer of “Leonidas” and one of the many reputed authors of the “Letters of Junius”. In the invocatory lines he exclaims: “Newton demands the Muse; his sacred hand Shall guide her infant steps.” and it is from this passage that the book now before us takes its title.
Newton demands the Muse Newton's Opticks and the Eighteenth Century Poets.
By Marjorie Hope Nicolson. (History of Ideas Series.) Pp. xi + 178. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1946.) 11s. 6d. net.
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DA C. ANDRADE, E. The Poets' View of Newton. Nature 160, 517–518 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160517a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160517a0
