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Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled in the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White's Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of a genius... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Isaac Newton: Add a description of this character.
- Robert Hooke
- Edmund Halley
- Collins
- Flamsteed
- Oldenburg
- Catherine Barton
- Hannah
- Robert Boyle
- Stukeley
- Charles Montagu
- Fatio
- Locke
- Kepler
- John Conduitt
- Grantham
- Smith
- Clark
- James
- Christiaan Huygens
- Babington
- Whiston
- Woolsthorpe
- Hamsteed
- Descartes
- David Gregory
- Woodward
- Sloane
- Jeffreys
- William
- Aristotle
- Anne
- Stokes
- Dee
- Wren
- Helvetius
- Peachell
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In the days before the English Civil War, Woolsthorpe was a peaceful Lincolnshire village, and even when, for a time, the world seemed turned upside down by internecine struggle the village survived the traumas almost unscathed.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Michael White (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 1857024168
Page Count: 402
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 1857024168
Page Count: 402
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- Dewey: 509.2
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