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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606137087 Title: Isaac Newton : adventurer in thought Author: A Rupert Hall Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996, ©1992. ISBN/ISSN: 052156221X 9780521562218 052156669X 9780521566698 OCLC:606137087

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Isaac Newton : adventurer in thought

Author:	A Rupert Hall
Publisher:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996, ©1992.
Series:	Cambridge science biographies series.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Hall's absorbing survey of modern scholarship interprets Newton's experimental approach to nature. Mathematics was the deepest of Newton's varied interests, unified in his single Christian design to Read more...
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Subjects	Newton, Isaac, -- 1642-1727. Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography. Physicists. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Named Person:	Isaac Newton; Isaac Newton
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	A Rupert Hall Find more information about:
ISBN:	052156221X 9780521562218 052156669X 9780521566698
OCLC Number:	606137087
Notes:	Reprint. Originally published: Oxford : Blackwell, 1992.
Description:	xvi, 468 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:	General editor's preface; Preface; 1. The hopeful youth, 1642-1664; 2. 'The prime of my age for invention', 1664-1667; 3. Widening horizons, 1667-1669; 4. The professor of mathematics, 1669-1673; 5. Publication and polemic, 1672-1678; 6. Life in Cambridge, 1675-1685; 7. The chemical philosopher, 1669-1695; 8. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1679-1687; 9. Private and public life, 1685-1696; 10. Fluxions and fury, 1677-1712; 11. Opticks, or a Treatise of Light, 1687-1718; 12. Life in London, 1696-1718; 13. A man of authority and learning, 1692-1727; 14. Later books, 1706-1726; 15. Kensington, 1725-1727; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Series Title:	Cambridge science biographies series.
Responsibility:	A. Rupert Hall.

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