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Science 15 August 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5635, p. 920
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088786
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Was Newton a Newtonian?

A review by Patricia Fara

Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
Pantheon Books, New York, 2003. 284 pp. $22.95, C$34.95. ISBN 0-375-42233-1. Fourth Estate (HarperCollins), London, September 2003. £15. ISBN 0-00-716317-7.

Gleick provides a concise, thematically oriented introduction to Newton's life and the broad scope of his researches.
The reviewer is at Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge CB2 1TL, UK. E-mail: pf10006{at}cam.ac.uk

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