Isaac Newton /
Series: Giants of science Published by : Viking, (New York :) Physical details: 126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN:0670059218 (hardcover) :; 9780670059218.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.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.3 3
A Junior Library Guild selection.
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