Alan E. ShapiroAlan E. Shapiro has written widely on the history of optics, and on Isaac Newton. He is the author of Fits, Passions, and Paroxysms: Physics, Method, and Chemistry and Newton's Theories of Colored Bodies and Fits of Easy Reflection (Cambridge, 1993).He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and served as President of the International Academy of the History of Science. Read More Read Less