Isaac Newton Tapa dura - 2006

de Kathleen Krull; Boris Kulikov (Illustrator)

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 Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive,and, oh, yes, brilliant.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

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