Religion and faith dominated much of Newton's life and work. His papers, never made available to the public, were filled with biblical speculation and timelines along with passages that excoriated the early Church fathers. Indeed, his radical theological leanings rendered him a heretic, according to the doctrines of the Anglican Church.

Uno de los proyectos más deseados, pero de difícil ejecución, debido a la descripción de los manuscritos, su volumen y la complejidad de su contenido, ha sido una Opera Omnia realmente completas de Newton. Este artículo muestra cómo el Newton Project, lanzado en 1998, se ha propuesto llenar este vacío al integrar la investigación sobre Newton, su pensamiento y su contexto con una indagación activa en ingeniería de software para producir un resultado confiable de los manuscritos en primer lugar en (...) formato digital y, posteriormente, de manera impresa. (shrink)

Sir Isaac Newton was one of the greatest scientists of all time, a thinker of extraordinary range and creativity who has left enduring legacies in mathematics and physics. While most famous for his Principia, his work on light and colour, and his discovery of the calculus, Newton devoted much more time to research in chemistry and alchemy, and to studying prophecy, church history and ancient chronology. This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Newton provides authoritative introductions to these further (...) dimensions of his endeavours as well as to many aspects of his physics. It includes a revised bibliography, a new introduction and six new chapters: three updating previous chapters on Newton's mathematics, his chemistry and alchemy and the reception of his religious views; and three entirely new, on his religion, his ancient chronology and the treatment of continuous and discontinuous forces in his second law of motion. (shrink)