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Isaac Newton

By Kathleen Krull

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Year
2010
ISBN
9781101098363, 2005017741
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2015200 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-01-13 07:52:30

Description

What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just "by thinking on it," he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity.Yet Newton was so small-minded that he set out to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings. Here is a compelling portrait of Newton, contradictions and all, that places him against the backdrop of 17th-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.

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