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Article: From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 2005
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From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics, edited by Kevin C. Knox and Richard Noakes. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxiv, 486 pp. $50.00 US (cloth).
From Newton to Hawking offers ten essays on the life and work of the (to date) seventeen holders of the Lucasian professorship in mathematics. The editors' aim, however, is to provide rather more than merely a series of concise scientific biographies. Emphasizing detailed, local, contextualized histories, the book explores the professors "as antiquarians, alchemists, orators ... theologians, economists, engineers, politicians, and church music ...