Newton's Gift
Subtitle: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World
Publisher: Free Press
Published: October 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780684843926
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Physics; History; History Of Physics; Scientists; Scientists - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Physicists; Biography/Autobiography; Newton, Isaac,; History & Philosophy; Science / General; Sir,; 1642-1727; Biography; Great Britain
First sentence: ISAAC NEWTON WAS BORN IN THE HAMLET OF Wolingsthorpe in 1642 and died in London in 1727.
Description: Discusses seventeenth-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton's life, focusing on his "system of the world" and his pioneering of mathematical physics, which changed science forever.