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020 _a9780142408209 (pbk.) 0142408204 (pbk.)
100 _aKrull, Kathleen.
245 _aIsaac Newton
250 _apbk.
260 _aNew York :
_bScholastic.
_c8/4/2009
300 _a126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
490 _aGiants of science.
500 _aIsaac Newton was not only brilliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, that places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
650 _aNewton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.
650 _aPhysicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
650 _aTelescopes.
650 _aScience -- Methodology.
852 _oJB NEW
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