Newton

Ackroyd's Brief Lives

Hardcover, 192 pages

English language

Published April 15, 2008 by Nan A. Talese, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-385-50799-8
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OCLC Number:
67361738

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When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the history of science, which set forth his famous laws of motion and universal gravitation. Newton's long-time research on calculus, finally made public in 1704, triggered a heated controversy as European scientists accused him of plagiarizing the work of the German scientist Gottfried Leibniz. In this third volume in the acclaimed Ackroyd's Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd provides an engaging portrait of Isaac Newton, illuminating what we think we know about him and describing his seminal contributions to science and mathematics. A man of wide and eclectic interests, Newton blurred the borders between natural philosophy and speculation: …

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  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • History
  • Scientists - General
  • Biography & Autobiography / General
  • General
  • Biography
  • Great Britain
  • Physicists