Out of the shadow of a giant
Subtitle: Hooke, Halley and the birth of science
By: John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780300226751
Subjects: Science; History
Description: 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliography (pages 286-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Freshwater to Oxford; title: The most ingenious book that ever I read in my life; title: Monumental achievements; title: Meanwhile ....; title: From Hackney to the high seas; title: Of spring and secretaryship; title: A mission of gravity; title: Halley, Newton and the comet; title: Not fade away; title: To command a king's ship; title: Legacies.