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BIOGRAPHY: Newton and the Counterfeiter By Thomas Levenson Faber, 320pp. pound(s)15.99

ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) is considered by many to be the most influential scientist who ever lived, but boy was he odd. This book does not hold itself up as a comprehensive biography of the man but it gives a reasonable overview of his life. There is no mention anywhere of Newton having physical contact with anyone, there is little mention of ordinary human warmth, and there is only one mention of anything resembling love.

In the 1689 to 1693 period (when he was half a century old) he appears to have fallen for a younger Swiss mathematician, Nicholas Fatio de Duillier, the ending of which relationship ...

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