Brilliantly written and illustrated by William Rankin, Newton for Beginners explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics. By the age of 25, entirely self-taught, he had sketched out a system of the world. Einstein ‘s theories are unthinkable without Newton’s founding system.

He was also a secret heretic, a mystic and an alchemist - and what is often forgotten, the scourge of forgers as English’s Master of the Royal Mint. Newton for Beginners is the perfect companion of Einstein for Beginners.