HOW did Isaac Newton come up with gravity? At that question, you may call up the familiar mental image of the young scientist being bopped on the head by a plummeting apple.
In real life, of course, it was not so simple. In his new novel, The Sensorium of God, science writer Stuart Clark catalogues the messy international and interpersonal politics flying around at the time of Newton’s great discovery.
The second in Clark’s planned trilogy inspired by the history of astrophysics, the novel’s narrative orbits around Newton and how he came to his famous theory. The central story draws in many tangential threads: his friendship…
