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{{Infobox book

| name = Never at Rest

| author = Richard S. Westfall

| image =

| caption = Cover image

| subject = Isaac Newton

| pub_date = May 2017

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| awards = {{plain list|

1981 Leo Gershoy Award{{r|GershoyAward}}
1983 Pfizer Award{{r|Pfizer}}

}}

| pages = 908

| isbn = 978-0-521-27435-7

| oclc = 5677169

| dewey = 509.24

| congress = QC16.N7

| notes = All identifiers refer to the paperback edition unless otherwise noted

}}

Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton is a biography of Isaac Newton by Richard S. Westfall that was initially published by Cambridge University Press in 1980. The book won the 25th Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society in 1983{{r|Pfizer}} as well as the 1982 Leo Gershoy Award for the best work on any aspect of seventeenth and eighteenth century European history.{{r|GershoyAward}} Twenty years after its publication, Publishers Weekly noted that the book the "definitive" biography of Newton.{{Cite magazine|date=November 2002 |title=Nonfiction Book Review: NEWTON: The Making of Genius by Patricia Fara, Author . Columbia Univ. $29.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-231-12806-3|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-231-12806-3|access-date=2020-12-15|work=Publishers Weekly|language=en}} Andrew Odlyzko noted in 2020 that the book remains an "authoritative" biography.{{Cite journal|last=Odlyzko|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Odlyzko|date=1 July 2020|title=Isaac Newton and the perils of the financial South Sea|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4521|journal=Physics Today|volume=73|issue=7|pages=30–36|doi=10.1063/PT.3.4521|issn=0031-9228|language=en}}

Background

Content

Preface

The discovery of a new world
A sober, silent, thinking lad
The solitary scholar
Resolving problems by motion
Anni mirabiles
Lucasian professor
Publication and crisis
Rebellion
Years of silence
Principia
Revolution
The Mint
President of the Royal Society
The priority dispute
Years of decline

Bibliographical essay

Reception

= Reviews =

The book was reviewed by Simon Schaffer,{{Cite journal|last=Schaffer|first=Simon|author-link=Simon Schaffer|date=October 1981|title=Richard S. Westfall, Never at rest. A biography of Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, 1980, 8vo, pp. xviii, 908, illus., £25.00.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0025727300034955/type/journal_article|journal=Medical History|language=en|volume=25|issue=4|pages=432–434|doi=10.1017/S0025727300034955|issn=0025-7273}} Tom Whiteside,{{Cite journal|last=Whiteside|first=D. T.|author-link=Tom Whiteside|date=March 1982|title=Newtonian Motion|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/232089|journal=Isis|volume=73|issue=1|pages=100–107|language=en|issn=0021-1753}} Timothy Ferris,{{Cite news|last=Ferris|first=Timothy|author-link=Timothy Ferris|date=26 September 1982|title=NONFICTION IN BRIEF (Published 1982)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/26/books/nonfiction-in-brief-171775.html|access-date=2020-12-15|issn=0362-4331}} Michael Sean Mahoney,{{Cite journal|last=Mahoney|first=Michael S.|author-link=Michael Sean Mahoney|date=October 1982|title=Review of Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3104823|journal=Technology and Culture|volume=23|issue=4|pages=655–656|doi=10.2307/3104823|language=en|issn=0040-165X}} and I. Bernard Cohen.{{Cite journal|last=Cohen|first=I. Bernard|author-link=I. Bernard Cohen|date=December 1982|title=Review of Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1856919|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=87|issue=5|pages=1353–1353|doi=10.2307/1856919|issn=0002-8762|language=en}} The book was also reviewed in French in 1982.{{Cite journal|last=Shea|first=William R.|date=October 1982|title=Review of Never at Rest. A biography of Isaac Newton|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23632188|journal=Revue d'histoire des sciences|volume=35|issue=4|pages=358–359|language=fr|issn=0151-4105}}

= Awards =

1981 Leo Gershoy Award{{Cite journal|date=July 1982|title=CSS volume 24 issue 3 Cover and Back matter|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/css-volume-24-issue-3-cover-and-back-matter/E7BAF0AB4B50936FEF670CEA2F581BC8|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|language=en|volume=24|issue=3|pages=b1–b10|doi=10.1017/S0010417500010021|issn=1475-2999}}
1983 Pfizer Award{{Cite journal|last=Gregory|first=Frederick|last2=Hatch|first2=Robert A.|date=June 1984|title=Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, 27-30 October 1983|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/231833|journal=Isis|volume=75|issue=2|pages=353–360|language=en|issn=0021-1753}}

''The Life of Isaac Newton''

The Life of Isaac Newton is a condensed version of Richard S. Westfall's biography of Newton. The book was reviewed by Marie Boas Hall,{{Cite journal|last=Hall|first=Marie Boas|author-link=Marie Boas Hall|date=January 1993|title=The life of Isaac Newton|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/016093279390089L|journal=Endeavour|language=en|volume=17|issue=4|pages=205|doi=10.1016/0160-9327(93)90089-L}} and Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs.{{Cite journal|last=Dobbs|first=B. J. T.|author-link=Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs|date=September 1994|title=Review of Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought, ; The Life of Isaac Newton|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/235497|journal=Isis|volume=85|issue=3|pages=515–517|language=en|issn=0021-1753}} The book was also reviewed by Christoph Scriba in German{{Cite journal|last=Scriba|first=C. J.|author-link=Christoph Scriba|date=January 1994|title=Westfall: The Life of Isaac Newton |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/phbl.19940500121|journal=Physik Journal|volume=50|issue=1|pages=79–82|language=en|doi=10.1002/phbl.19940500121}} and it received a French review in 1995.{{Cite journal|last=De Gandt|first=François|date=Summer 1995|title=Review of The Life of Isaac Newton|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23633230|journal=Revue d'histoire des sciences|volume=48|issue=3|pages=394–395|issn=0151-4105|language=fr}}

Publication history

{{Cite book|last=Westfall, Richard S.|date=April 1983|title=Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton|edition=paperback|isbn=978-0-521-27435-7|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|language=en|oclc=5677169|ref=none}}

References

External links

[https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-science-and-technology/never-rest-biography-isaac-newton?format=PB&isbn=9780521274357 publisher's website]