I. Bernard CohenBorn 1 Mar 1914; died 20 Jun 2003 at age 89. American science historian whowas the first American to receive a Ph.D. in history of science. Hepublishedmany books on the history of science. His notablePrincipia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1999), the first English translation of Isaac Newton's Principiasince 1729, took 15 years to complete, and comprised 974 pages. He also wrote about Benjamin Franklin and the computer pioneer, Howard Aiken.« |