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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 as well as the 1982 Leo Gershoy Award for the best work on any aspect of seventeenth and eighteenth century European history. Twenty years after its publication, Publishers Weekly noted that the book the "definitive" biography of Newton. Andrew Odlyzko noted in 2020 that the book remains an "authoritative" biography.

Content

 * Preface
 * 1) The discovery of a new world
 * 2) A sober, silent, thinking lad
 * 3) The solitary scholar
 * 4) Resolving problems by motion
 * 5) Anni mirabiles
 * 6) Lucasian professor
 * 7) Publication and crisis
 * 8) Rebellion
 * 9) Years of silence
 * 10) Principia
 * 11) Revolution
 * 12) The Mint
 * 13) President of the Royal Society
 * 14) The priority dispute
 * 15) Years of decline
 * Bibliographical essay

Reviews
The book was reviewed by Simon Schaffer, Tom Whiteside, Timothy Ferris, Michael Sean Mahoney, and I. Bernard Cohen. The book was also reviewed in French in 1982.

Awards

 * 1981 Leo Gershoy Award
 * 1983 Pfizer Award

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, and Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs. The book was also reviewed by Christoph Scriba in German and it received a French review in 1995.