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BookIsaac Newton

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  • Isaac Newton / by Michael White.

Published/Created

  • San Diego, Calif. : Blackbirch Press, 2005.
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Description

  • 64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

ISBN

  • 1410305023 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LC classification

  • QC16.N7 W4418 2005

Contents

  • The problem of gravity -- An amazing year -- Newton's world -- Newton's science -- Childhood in Lincolnshire -- Isaac's stepfather -- An interest in machines -- School days -- Farmer or student? -- Early days at Cambridge -- New ideas -- The rainbow -- More experiments -- The first real scientist -- The spinning circle -- A clearer view -- Flight from the Great Plague -- Back home -- Gravity -- The pail of water -- Back to Cambridge -- An important job -- Newton's plan -- Newton teaches mathematics -- Galileo's telescope -- A new type of telescope -- The Royal Society -- The careful scientist -- Edmund Halley -- The Principia -- Inertia -- The laws of motion -- Newton's laws at work -- Newton's laws today -- The black years -- The Royal Mint -- Clippers and thieves -- Science at the Mint -- High office -- Newton's new book -- The final years -- Remembering Isaac Newton -- Important dates.

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Notes

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Text in Spanish and English.

Series

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  • 2004026922

Dewey class no.

  • 530/.092 B

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  • spa eng eng

Geographic area code

  • e-uk---

Type of material

  • Book

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