Isaac Newton /
Krull, Kathleen.
Isaac Newton / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov. - New York : Viking, 2006. - 126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Giants of science . - Krull, Kathleen. Giants of science. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Ages 10 up.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
0670059218 (hardcover) : $15.99 9780670059218
Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com
2005017741
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 --Juvenile literature.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
QC16.N7 / K78 2006
530/.092 B
Isaac Newton / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov. - New York : Viking, 2006. - 126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Giants of science . - Krull, Kathleen. Giants of science. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Ages 10 up.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
0670059218 (hardcover) : $15.99 9780670059218
Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com
2005017741
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 --Juvenile literature.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
QC16.N7 / K78 2006
530/.092 B