Its brevity, which may or may not have been premeditated, seems to have resulted from a rare and relentless insistence on saying solely what can be said confidently and afresh.
The only criticism is that he tells it too well and too briefly. Gleick tells the tale like the professional storyteller he is. "What is wonderful about this short book is that it leaves you hungry for more insight into the man who changed the course of science.Despite the book's economy of scope, it will surely stand as the definitive study for a very long time to come." - John Banville, The Guardian Isaac Newton sees its angular subject in the round, presenting him as scientist and magician, believer and heretic, monster and man. "(A) masterpiece of brevity and concentration.He is an elegant writer, brisk without being shallow, excellent on the essence of the work, and revealing in his account of Newton's dealings with the times and with the men - admiring, dubious, downright hostile - with whom he condescended to interact." - Vincent Boland, Financial Times "His admirable new biography is perhaps the most accessible to date.(.) At the book's start, its beauty and conciseness seem bewitching by then end, the reader begins to feel it may have been too easy and too thin." - The Economist "Mr Gleick's book is more properly an essay or an appreciation of Newton's revolutionary work, written with enormous enthusiasm and verve and in a style that is often closer to poetry than prose."Gleick, with admirable clarity and concision and lightness of touch, gives us a distinctly pro-Newtonian account of the author of the magisterial Principia, rather as if a biographer of Napoleon hymned all the virtues of the French Empire." - Daily Telegraph, Andy Martin.
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