Isaac Newton
Author(s): Kathleen Krull
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.Presents a biography of Isaac Newton, a celebrated genius of his time who invented calculus and gave a scientific explanation of gravity, but also tried to destroy other scientists who questioned his work.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Viking Books
- : Viking Books
- : 0.286
- : 01 April 2006
- : 217mm X 148mm X 18mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kathleen Krull
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : Boris Kulikov
- : 530.092
- : 126
- : Science; Technology & applied sciences
- : illustrations