Suggested Reading

Page from one of Newton's
notebooks, with an illustration
of an early optical experiment
– Cambridge University Library,
MS ADD 3975, p.15

Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are for sale in the Library Shop.

*Cohen, I. Bernard. The Cambridge Companion to Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Cohen, I. Bernard. Newton: Texts, Backgrounds, Commentaries. Edited by Richard S. Westfall. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.

Fauvel, John, et al., eds. Let Newton Be! New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Hakim, Joy. The Story of Science, Book Two: Newton at the Center. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004.

Hall, A. Rupert. Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Israel, Jonathan. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making
of Modernity, 1650–1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1952.

Newton, Isaac. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Trans. I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

*Porter, Roy. Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the
British Enlightenment. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.

*Westfall, Richard S. The Life of Isaac Newton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.