Isaac Newton
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.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Viking
2006
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| Schriftenreihe: | Giants of science
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 117 - 119) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 126 p Ill 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0670059218 0-670-05921-8 9780670059218 978-0-670-05921-8 |