Newton's Notebook

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‘He aim’d at something beyond the Reach of humane Art & Industry’, Humphrey Newton on his friend Isaac Newton in a letter, January 1728
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Newton's Notebook
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‘He aim’d at something beyond the Reach of humane Art & Industry’, Humphrey Newton on his friend Isaac Newton in a letter, January 1728
Discover the life and ground-breaking science of British polymath Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Drawing upon the scientist’s own journals and writing, and illustrated with diagrams, paintings and lithographs throughout, this appealing biography is presented in the form of a scientific ‘notebook’. Exploring the times which shaped Newton’s thinking; the personal, family life of the pioneering scientist; as well as outlining his discoveries and the impact of his ideas across mathematics, astronomy, optics, and physics. From his development of telescopes to the discovery of gravity and his ‘Principia’, published 1687; Newton was a pioneer of scientific method. An accessible introduction to the man behind these big ideas and world-changing thinking.
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Paperback
20.5 x 15.5cm
160 pages
With black-and-white and colour illustrations throughout
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