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Isaac Newton: The scientist who changed everything
OverviewrnBorn in England in 1643, Isaac Newton grew up in the age when Renaissance thinkers were challenging accepted ideas throughout Europe. Fascinated by all earthly science, Newton developed laws of motion and universal gravitation which also furthered our understanding of the movement of celestial bodies. This vibrant biography profiles the famed physicist as an acclaimed mathematician, a…
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- 9781426314506
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- 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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- National Geographic world history biographies.
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- 530.092 STE i
My brief history: Stephen Hawking
Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous i…
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- 978 0 345 53528 3
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- 523.1 HAW m
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