Isaac Newton (1642-1727).

ADDITIONAL READING

These notes might interest you:

• Historical reviews:**
  • Historical Review of Science I: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance.
  • Historical Review of Science II: From the Renaissance to today.

  ** Please note, when you view these two articles the figures will appear in a separate window when you click on the figure number.

• Brief biographies:
  • A brief biography of Nicolaus Copernicus.
  • A brief biography of Tycho Brähe.
  • A brief biography of Johannes Kepler.
  • A brief biography of Galileo Galilei.
  • A brief biography of Isaac Newton.
  • A brief biography of Henry Cavendish.
  • A brief history of the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat (Count Rumford and James Joule).
  • A brief biography of Thomas Young.
  • A brief biography of James Clerk Maxwell.
  • The discovery of x-rays and radioactivity: brief biographies of Wilhelm Röntgen and Henri Becquerel.
  • The electron: brief biographies of J.J. Thomson and R.A. Millikan.
  • The quantum hypothesis: a brief biography of Max Planck.

All articles were written by RGJ for the use of students in PHY2044 ONLY.