牛顿传 Isaac Newton

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 320 pages

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:HarperPerennial

ISBN:9780007163182

Published:7 Jun 2004

Weight:228g

Dimensions:197 x 130 x 21 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是科学领域知名的作家对艾萨克-牛顿的杰出描绘。他改变了我们对宇宙和科学的理解。艾萨克-牛顿是现代世界的总设计师。

他解答了光和运动的古老哲学之谜；他有发现了万有引力；他将 "时间"、"空间"、"运动 "和 "地点 "等术语从日常语言的阴霾中拯救出来，将它们标准化，并使它们相互结合，构建了一座使知识成为实质的大厦：量化且准确。牛顿证明，创造是从简单的规则中展开的，是在无限的距离上迭代的模式。牛顿所学仍然是我们所知的本质。

牛顿定律就是我们的定律。当我们谈论动量、力和质量时，我们是在用牛顿的眼光看世界。当我们寻求经济周期和人类行为的数学定律时，我们是站在牛顿的肩膀上。

我们认为宇宙是可解的，这是他的遗产。这是一位隐居的教授、深奥的神学家和狂热的炼金术士的成就。他惧怕曝光的光芒，回避争议，很少发表自己的作品。

在他的日常生活中，他效仿了他所看到的宇宙之谜的复杂秘密。他对自然的看法是与时俱进的；他从未清除过神秘、隐蔽和神秘的特质。但他推开了一扇通往新宇宙的大门。

From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world.

He answered the ancient philosophical riddles of light and motion; he effectively discovered gravity; he salvaged the terms 'time', 'space', 'motion' and 'place' from the haze of everyday language, standardized them and married them, each to the other, constructing an edifice that made knowledge a thing of substance: quantative and exact. Creation, Newton demonstrated, unfolds from simple rules, patterns iterated over unlimited distances. What Newton learned remains the essence of what we know.

Newton's laws are our laws. When we speak of momentum, of forces and masses, we are seeing the world as Newtonians. When we seek mathematical laws for economic cycles and human behaviour, we stand on Newton's shoulders.

Our very deeming the universe as solvable is his legacy. This was the achievement of a reclusive professor, recondite theologian and fervent alchemist. A man who feared the light of exposure, shrank from controversy and seldom published his work.

In his daily life he emulated the complex secrecy in which he saw the riddles of the universe encoded. His vision of nature was of its time; he never purged occult, hidden, mystical qualities. But he pushed open a door that led to a new universe.

作者简介

詹姆斯-格里克 1954 年出生于纽约。他曾在《纽约时报》担任编辑和记者长达十年。他是畅销书《混沌》、《天才》、《更快》、《刚刚发生了什么》和《艾萨克-牛顿传》的作者。

James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, What Just Happened and a biography of Isaac Newton.