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Isaac Newton : And the Scientific Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Portraits in Science SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199762361
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Isaac NewtonDDC classification:
  • 530/.092 B
LOC classification:
  • QC16.N7 .C475 1996
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. "To Play Philosophically -- Chapter 2. "My Greater Friend -- Chapter 3. Of Genius, Fire, and Plague -- Chapter 4. The Revolutionary Professor -- Chapter 5. "Kindling Coal -- Chapter 6. The Alchemist -- Chapter 7. "A Book Nobody Understands -- Chapter 8. "Your Most Unfortunate Servant -- Chapter 9. Mark of the Lion -- Chapter 10. The Royal Society -- Chapter 11. War -- Chapter 12. "Like a Boy on the Seashore -- Chronology -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: Isaac Newton, a volume in the ongoing Oxford Portraits in Science series, explores the life of the famed English mathematician and natural philosopher considered by many to be the greatest scientist that ever lived. Readers will learn about Newton's greatest accomplishments, such as the discoveries of gravity and the color spectrum and the development of calculus.
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Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. "To Play Philosophically -- Chapter 2. "My Greater Friend -- Chapter 3. Of Genius, Fire, and Plague -- Chapter 4. The Revolutionary Professor -- Chapter 5. "Kindling Coal -- Chapter 6. The Alchemist -- Chapter 7. "A Book Nobody Understands -- Chapter 8. "Your Most Unfortunate Servant -- Chapter 9. Mark of the Lion -- Chapter 10. The Royal Society -- Chapter 11. War -- Chapter 12. "Like a Boy on the Seashore -- Chronology -- Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Isaac Newton, a volume in the ongoing Oxford Portraits in Science series, explores the life of the famed English mathematician and natural philosopher considered by many to be the greatest scientist that ever lived. Readers will learn about Newton's greatest accomplishments, such as the discoveries of gravity and the color spectrum and the development of calculus.

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