Bibliography

Wallis, Peter and Ruth Wallis. Newton and Newtoniana, 1672-1975. A Bibliography. Folkestone, England: Dawson, 1977, 362 p.

An exhaustive bibliography of works by and about Newton.

Biography

Westfall, Richard S. Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980, 960 p.

A definitive biography using recent scholarship. Contains an extensive bibliographic essay.

Criticism

Cohen, I. Bernard. "Newton in the Light of Recent Scholarship." Isis 51, Part 4, No. 166 (December 1960): 489-514.

Reviews the reasons for extensive Newtonian historical scholarship, and discusses the variety and revelations of such study.

Markley, Robert. "Representing Order: Natural Philosophy, Mathematics, and Theology in the Newtonian Revolution." In Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science, edited by N. Katherine Hayles, pp. 125-48. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Challenges historical scientists who assert that Newton and his peers "reflexively identified order with mathematics" and argues that "the discourses of 'order' before and during the Newtonian revolution are the sites of complex attempts both to describe accurately and to idealize the natural world."

Scheurer, P. B. and G. Debrock, eds. Newton's Scientific and Philosophical Legacy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988, 382 p.

Collection of essays dealing with Newtonian science, as Newton himself understood the term "science"; the influence of Newton on later science; the methodological influence of Newton; and the philosophical legacy of Newton.