Table of Contents

General editor's preface; Preface; 1. The hopeful youth, 1642–1664; 2. 'The prime of my age for invention', 1664–1667; 3. Widening horizons, 1667–1669; 4. The professor of mathematics, 1669–1673; 5. Publication and polemic, 1672–1678; 6. Life in Cambridge, 1675–1685; 7. The chemical philosopher, 1669–1695; 8. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1679–1687; 9. Private and public life, 1685–1696; 10. Fluxions and fury, 1677–1712; 11. Opticks, or a Treatise of Light, 1687–1718; 12. Life in London, 1696–1718; 13. A man of authority and learning, 1692–1727; 14. Later books, 1706–1726; 15. Kensington, 1725–1727; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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