Isaac Newton by James Gleick

Isaac Newton

James Gleick

288 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative medium-paced

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Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the...

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