The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs

The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought

Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs

376 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In this major reevaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy. Professor Dobbs argues that to Newton those sever...

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