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Introducing Newton: a graphic guide / William Rankin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Icon Books Ltd, 2012Description: 175 pages : illustrations ; 17 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848311763 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 530.092 RAN 014820
Summary: The rainbow, the moon, a spinning top, a comet, the ebb and flow of the oceans, a falling apple. There is only one universe and it fell to Isaac Newton to discover its secrets. Newton was arguably the greatest scientific genius of all time, and yet he remains a mysterious figure. Brilliantly written and illustrated by William Rankin, this graphic guide explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics. By the age of twnety-five, entirely self-taught, he had sketched out a system of the world. Einstein's theories are unthinkable without Newton's founding system. He was also a secret heretic, a mystic and an alchemist, the man of whom Edmond Halley said, 'Nearer to the gods may no man approach!' Popular science.
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Cover subtitle: A graphic guide.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rainbow, the moon, a spinning top, a comet, the ebb and flow of the oceans, a falling apple. There is only one universe and it fell to Isaac Newton to discover its secrets. Newton was arguably the greatest scientific genius of all time, and yet he remains a mysterious figure. Brilliantly written and illustrated by William Rankin, this graphic guide explains the extraordinary ideas of a man who sifted through the accumulated knowledge of centuries, tossed out mistaken beliefs, and single-handedly made enormous advances in mathematics, mechanics and optics. By the age of twnety-five, entirely self-taught, he had sketched out a system of the world. Einstein's theories are unthinkable without Newton's founding system. He was also a secret heretic, a mystic and an alchemist, the man of whom Edmond Halley said, 'Nearer to the gods may no man approach!'
Popular science.

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