| Evidence: | "[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat and sleep? Is he like other men?' an awed nobleman had asked John Arbuthnot after scanning the work." |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | nobleman |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | a nobleman known to John Arbuthnot |
| Author: | Isaac Newton |
| Title: | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica |
| Genre: | Science, Mathematics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6328 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Adrian Johns | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making | |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago | |
| Date of Publication: | 1998 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 565 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), p. 565, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6328, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| P. 565 n. 48 in source cites R. S. Westfall, Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, 1980). |
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