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To: Mr. K
do you know of any good biographies of Newton?

Richard Westfall's Never At Rest seems to be the definitive version. I have the abridged Canto version entitled The Life of Isaac Newton, which has served me well, although I have consulted the original for its discussion of some mathematical details.

I also have James Gleick's ISAAC NEWTON, which is comparatively a breezy read, but not without merit, and I would certainly recommend it as a starting point.

64 posted on 06/07/2015 7:01:34 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew

Have you read up on Tesla too? He was unbelievable.

I wish he was alive today to see what he made happen- and just imagine what he could do with modern computers at his disposal.


65 posted on 06/08/2015 4:41:58 AM PDT by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz - to defeat HilLIARy/Warren)
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