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A new life of Sir Isaac Newton thuds ingloriously to the ground.
From:
The Washington Post
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February 2, 2003| Author:
Michael Dirda
| Copyright 2003 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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NEWTON
The Making of Genius
By Patricia Fara
Columbia Univ. 347 pp. $27.95
This promised to be a terrific book -- the story of Isaac Newton's
afterlife, a study of how history, politics, literature and the needs
of science transformed a reclusive 17th-century thinker into the very
emblem of modern genius and ultimately, edging out Shakespeare and
Karl Marx, into the "Man of the Millennium."
To start with, the dust jacket carries encomia from novelist John
Ban...
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