Isaac Newton (Pioneers of Science)

by Douglas Mc Tavish (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.15

  This series looks at the development of scientific thought and discovery through the lives and achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists. Sir Isaac Newton is the subject of this book. It traces his life and career from its inauspicious beginnings in rural Lincolnshire, through his brilliant discoveries in the fields of mathematics, optics, gravitation and movement whilst at Cambridge University, to his election as President of the Royal Society and his knighthood, the first ever bestowed upon a scientist. Every effort is made, with the help of example, illustration and diagram, to explain some of his more difficult ideas in the areas of gravity and motion for the younger reader.