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In the presence of the Creator : Isaac Newton and his times

1984

Format:	Book
Author:	Christianson, Gale E.
Title:	In the presence of the Creator : Isaac Newton and his times / Gale E. Christianson.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1984.
Description:	xv, 623 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:	Publisher description: Gale E. Christianson has turned his full attention to one man alone, Isaac Newton, who emerges full-blown in these pages not merely as a preeminent astronomer but as the figure history has long known him to be : the greatest scientific thinker of modern times.
Subjects:	Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography. Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genre:	Biographies.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-606) and index.
Contents:	Inside a quart pot -- Of giants and dwarfs -- The transit of genius -- A movable feast -- A kinde of nothinge -- Some strangeness in the proportion -- The killing ground -- "I desire to withdraw" -- The treasures of darkness -- Heretic : sotto voce -- A pitfall in Eden -- The most perfect mechanic of all -- "Go your way, and sin no more" -- Cul-de-sac -- A morality play -- "Your very loving unkle" -- Sir Isaac -- The devil's banter -- "Second inventors count for nothing" -- "They could not get me to yield" -- Infinity.
LCCN:	83049211
ISBN:	0029051908 9780029051900
Other Number:	10375094
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Control Number:	11138
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Call Number:	BIO Newton

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