Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the calculus, the experimentation that altered the direction of the science of optics, and especially the investigations in celestial dynamics that led to the law of universal gravitation.

    With his customary droll humor, Connell brings to life in these seven essays advances made in cartography, anthropology, astronomy, linguistics, and archaeology by showing the enormous lengths to which outstanding individuals have driven themselves in passionate pursuit of knowledge.

    Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.

    

    

    A valuable addition to academic and public library collections." -- Choice