Newton (What Makes Nature Tick) explains the premise of his slim volume in a single sentence in the introduction:""This book is about the rhythm of time, how that rhythm was finally regulated by ...
Galileo’s Pendulum by Roger Newton, Harvard University Press, £14.95/$22.95, ISBN 067401331X Reviewed by Marcus Chown THIS book, Galileo’s Pendulum, reminds me of a London cabbie “doing the ...