The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution - Softcover

John Gribbin, Ph.D., trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer. His books include the highly acclaimed In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, The First Chimpanzee, In Search of the Big Bang, In the Beginning, In Search of the Edge of Time, In Search of the Double Helix, The Stuff of the Universe (with Martin Rees), Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, and Einstein: A Life in Science (with Michael White). He lives in East Sussex with his wife and two sons.

"Full of interesting detail and anecdotage, a warm and readable history of a key era in science." -- Kirkus

"A portrait gallery displaying a group of remarkable characters who made important contributions to the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century...A lively and readable account." -- Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books

"Rich and readable" -- The Times

"This excellent work of popular science is a first-rate account of the seventeenth-century revolution in scientific perception that shook the world." -- The Herald

"What makes [Gribbin] the master of popular science writing, however, is not just his range, but also the perfect clarity that allows non-scientific readers to grasp some highly difficult, but essential, ideas.... His success is as much a matter of literary prowess as scientific acumen." -- Scotsman Critique