Mordechai Feingold. The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture.(Book review)

Seventeenth-Century News | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Mordechai Feingold. The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xv + 215 pp. $22.50. Review by IRVING A. KELTER, UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, HOUSTON.

Sir Isaac Newton was a towering figure in seventeenth-century English science and culture and, indeed, in the development of all of modern Western culture. The book under review by Dr. Moredechai Feingold, the well-known historian of early modern English mathematics and science, was a companion volume to the wonderful exhibition on Isaac Newton ...

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