Isaac Newton (Vintage Vintage) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Isaac Newton In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work.
Full description- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Published: 08 June 2004
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | Autobiography: Science, Technology & Engineering | History Of Science | History Of Engineering & Technology
- ISBN 13: 9781400032952 ISBN 10: 1400032954
- Sales rank: 108,744
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Full description for Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral--an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names--"mass," "gravity," "velocity"--things our science now takes for granted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo's discoveries and the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible and dared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in his generation. James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the most acclaimed science writers of "his" generation, brings the reader into Newton's reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanations of the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies, rest, and motion--ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it can truly be said: We are all Newtonians.
