TY - BOOK AU - Krull,Kathleen AU - Kulikov,Boris TI - Isaac Newton T2 - Giants of science SN - 0670059218 (hardcover) : AV - QC16.N7 K78 2006 U1 - 530/.092B 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - Newton, Isaac, KW - Physicists KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature N1 - 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; Ages 10 up; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; MG; 7.3; 3 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005017741.html ER -