What would life be like right now if Newton had not existed? Who knows, but these books attribute many modern inventions to Newton's original discoveries.

• Let Newton Be! Fauvel, et al, Editors. Oxford: Oxford Universtiy Press, 1988.
  • Less of a bibliography or text book and more like watching an episode of Connections (a tv show where they WILDLY connect different historical events). A take on Newtonian science and how it affected various branches of science and the world in general. Each branch of Newton's work is analyzed with a touch of biography and a heavy dose of skepticism. Much work in harmonics is tied in here as well. Many interesting questions are brought up.
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• Scheurer, P.B. Newton's Scientific and Philosphical Legacy. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
  • I normally pick up proceedings from conferences and skim and put them back down. This one caught my eye because it seems to be carrying forward the works of Newton to more modern discoveries, and explaining them in mathematical detail.
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• Segre, Emilio. From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries. New York: WH Freeman and Co: 1984.
  • A delightful (!?) book, with a blurb longer than the encyclopedias on his life. A smattering of his work explained, the impact his work had on the future of math and physics, and why it is so important that he intertwined the two. Lots of illustrations, and of course a different story of his life. Will no one agree on this? Has bibliography. Good read.