In the Presence of the Creator: Isaac Newton and His Times

Publisher Description: Gale E. Christianson Has Turned His Full Attention To One Man Alone, Isaac Newton, Who Emerges Full-blown In These Pages Not Merely As A Preeminent Astronomer But As The Figure History Has Long Known Him To Be : The Greatest Scientific Thinker Of Modern Times. Inside A Quart Pot -- Of Giants And Dwarfs -- The Transit Of Genius -- A Movable Feast -- A Kinde Of Nothinge -- Some Strangeness In The Proportion -- The Killing Ground -- I Desire To Withdraw -- The Treasures Of Darkness -- Heretic : Sotto Voce -- A Pitfall In Eden -- The Most Perfect Mechanic Of All -- Go Your Way, And Sin No More -- Cul-de-sac -- A Morality Play -- Your Very Loving Unkle -- Sir Isaac -- The Devil's Banter -- Second Inventors Count For Nothing -- They Could Not Get Me To Yield -- Infinity. Gale E. Christianson. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 577-606.