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Introducing Newton |
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"It's a treat. Gripping to read and look at. Wise, funny and packed with interesting material. I haven't enjoyed myself so much for ages" - Nigel Humphry. |
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The rainbow, the moon, a spinnig top, the ebb an 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 greates scientific genius of all time, and yet remains a mysterious figure. Brilliantly illustrated by William Rankin, Inroducing Newton explains how, by the age of 25, entirely self taught, he had sketched out a system of the world. 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!'
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