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Christianson, Gale E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NEWTON, ISAAC CHR

Dolnick, Edward

Summary: Presents the true story of a pivotal moment in modern history when a group of strange, tormented geniuses--Isaac Newton chief among them--invented science and remade our understanding of the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Science Dolnick

Gleick, James.

Summary: In this biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work in physics, in optics, and in calculus.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 530.092 GLE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 530.092 GLE

Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEW

Newton, Isaac

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 531 NEW

Boerst, William J.

Summary: Presents the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century British physicist Sir Isaac Newton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEW

Gleick, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 GLE

Stephenson, Neal.

Summary: In the wake of a power struggle between the throne-seeking Tories and Whigs in early eighteenth-century England, Daniel Waterhouse teams up with Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group that uses time bombs to kill Natural Philosophers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Stott, Rebecca.

Summary: When the death of a Cambridge historian leaves her opus on Sir Isaac Newton unfinished, Lydia Brooke is called in to finish the book, only to find herself embroiled in a mystery in which the present becomes entangled with a past based on Newton's life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STO

Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WOR
Call number: DVD 709 WOR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010

Summary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Ferrie, Chris

Summary: Presents simple illustrations of the concepts of motion, gravity, and mass that make up the theory of Newtonian physics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2017

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