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Krull, Kathleen.
Isaac Newton /
by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov.
New York :
Viking,
2006.
126 p. :
ill. ;
22 cm.
Giants of science
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ages 10 up.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
MG
7.3
3.
20070129.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Newton, Isaac
Sir
1642-1727
Juvenile literature.
Physicists
Great Britain
Biography
Juvenile literature.
Physicists
Biography.
Kulikov, Boris,
1966-,
ill.
Giants of science.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005017741.html
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