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John Conduitt’s ‘memoir’
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Abstract
The first and for long the most influential biographer of Isaac Newton was John Conduitt (1688-1737), Masterof the Mint from 1727to 1737. Conduitt’s narrative of Newton’s life, prepared for the Academie Royale des Sciences in Paris, but only published in 1806, dominated biographical accounts of Newton before the appearance of Sir David Brewster’s two-volume Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton in 1855. Yet even he, for many personal matters, relied heavily on Conduitt’s memoir for the Academie or his manuscript notes. Few of Newton’s contemporaries left considered accounts of him.
Title: John Conduitt’s ‘memoir’
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Abstract
The first and for long the most influential biographer of Isaac Newton was John Conduitt (1688-1737), Masterof the Mint from 1727to 1737.
Conduitt’s narrative of Newton’s life, prepared for the Academie Royale des Sciences in Paris, but only published in 1806, dominated biographical accounts of Newton before the appearance of Sir David Brewster’s two-volume Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton in 1855.
Yet even he, for many personal matters, relied heavily on Conduitt’s memoir for the Academie or his manuscript notes.
Few of Newton’s contemporaries left considered accounts of him.
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