{"id":781,"date":"2004-08-01T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T12:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/08\/isaac_newton\/"},"modified":"2004-08-01T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T12:12:39","slug":"isaac_newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/isaac_newton\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that it was coming out of the Bill Bryson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0552997048\">book<\/a> that made me pick up this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007163177\">biography of Newton<\/a> (I&#8217;d love to read a good biography of Charles Darwin too).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve not previously read any of James Gleick&#8217;s popular science books, but I wanted to learn more about Newton who strikes me as a fascinating character who&#8217;s brilliant at the same time.<br \/>\nThis is quite a slim biography, and this is because that we don&#8217;t get to delve too greatly into his personal life, but concentrate on his scientific life. Even then, one feels we&#8217;re being given the abridged version.<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t say that one comes to particularly like Newton, since he had plenty of character flaws &#8211; not least his habit of keeping his work secret. In another time, he might have suffered far more, but fortunately he had people to promote his ideas and help him deal with some of his issues.<br \/>\nA pleasing insight into the life of this brilliant man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0007163177<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}