Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 272pp, index, references and notes, b/w illustrations.

Very good, blind-stamped personal library mark present, else nice bright clean pages. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

Recent finds have shown that Newton's work reached from mathematics to theology, from mechanics to music and from optics to alchemy. A major theme of the is book "is to explore these diverse facets and to show through examining our knowledge of their social context how they were all components of one person's work."