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New York : Viking, 2006. |
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0670059218 (hardcover) : |
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jB Newton, Isaac KRU |
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126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
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Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Juvenile literature.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727
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A Junior Library Guild selection. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Summary note: |
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions. |
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All alone -- The great escape -- A new world -- The apple -- Newton versus Hooke -- Newton versus Leibniz -- Newton versus Flamsteed -- The greatest science book in the world -- Newton versus Newton -- And what about alchemy? -- The crimson years -- His impact. |
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