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June 2004
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Featuring: Isaac Newton
288 pages
ISBN: 1400032954
EAN: 9781400032952
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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