Isaac Newton (Giants of Science, 2)
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 Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant.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...
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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 Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant.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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670059218 (0670059218)
Publish date: April 6th 2006
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Krull makes Isaac Newton human and his discoveries understandable to someone who isn't a science geek. Krull shows readers Newton in all his genius and pettiness. Students will enjoy learning about his experiments using himself as his own guinea pig and will enjoy hearing about his arguments with ot...
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