Alexander Pope’s couplet gives me goosebumps: “Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night; God said: Let Newton be! and all was light.” 
James Gleick’s lean, lovely biography is a modern account of Newton’s multiple breakthroughs–and then some. Almost everything we know about apples and moons in motion and at rest, about time, space, gravity, inertia, differential and integral calculus, occurred to Isaac Newton in his early twenties, working in isolation through the London plague years of 1665 and 1666. Gleick‘s great gift is making this not merely a lucid history of mathematical ideas but also a meditation on the utterly marvelous, a virtually unexplainable genius. In conversation Jim Gleick underlines the great paradox of Newton. Both medieval and modern, the father of the Enlightenment and modern rationalism was also a determined alchemist and an opinionated Unitarian Christian. Gleick’s book rises to the challenge of that same paradox: it is wise science written with humility and awe. Listen in.
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Newton astounds me in what he could see from where he was sitting in medieval times.
I have known a lot of bright people, but none with a brilliance so shattering of paradigms as Isaac Newton.
Great interview. Between the two of you, Gleick and Lydon, you bring out the enormous difference between Newton’s time and ours–and it all happened so gradually, almost imperceptibly over the intervening years. If one object of the interview is that the listener should go out and get the book, that will happen this afternoon out here! Looking forward to reading it, and may even be driven back to re-reading “Chaos,” Jim Gleick’s wonderful earlier book.
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