Isaac Newton
Subtitle: The Greatest Scientist of All Time
Edition: Revised edition
Series: Great Minds of Science
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: May 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766027930
Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; General; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology; Science & Nature - Astronomy
Description: English scientist, astronomer, and mathematician Isaac Newton is considered by many to be the greatest scientist of all time.  Using a prism, Newton first discovered that sunlight is made up of light rays of many different colors.  The branch of mathematics, calculus, was developed by Newton. But Newton is best known for his theories of motion and gravitation.  These laws served as the foundation of science for the past three hundred years.
Table of contents: title: "A Sober, Silent, Thinking Lad"; title: New Horizons; title: A Fruitful Vacation; title: Seeing the Light; title: The Hermit Professor; title: A Question of Gravity; title: The Principia; title: Outside Forces; title: The Mint; title: "The Great Ocean of Truth"; title: "On the Shoulders of Giants"