Title: A rather dry rendering of an amazing man's life
Review: Isaac Newton helped erect modern science by laying a sturdy base for the empirical understanding of the physical world. Gleick's treatment comes across as distressingly dry, seemingly focused on a few spats and grudges Newton carried for decades instead of his painstaking efforts and surmises that led to modern physics, optics, calculus, gravity and other immense elucidations. The book is also rather short on personal aspects of Newton's life aside from some pages devoted to his childhood and early collegiate years. At under 200 pages, perhaps I should have suspected as much. To say the least, the Notes, Sources and Index take up an additional 80 pages so this is no fault upon Mr. Gleick's scholarship but rather his story-telling. If you seek a driving narrative about one of the most fascinating humans to inhabit the Earth, I implore you to look elsewhere.
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