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  • Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

Author
Kathleen Krull
Illustrator
Boris Kulikov
Publication Date
October 16, 2008
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Isaac Newton
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Description
Here is a man with an imagination so large that just by thinking on it, ? he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Kathleen Krull presents a portrait of Isaac Newton that will challenge your beliefs about a genius whose amazing discoveries changed the world
Publication date
October 16, 2008
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780142408209
Lexile Measure
1000
Publisher
Puffin Books
Series
Giants of Science (Viking Paperback)
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF051140 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Physics

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Starred Review
Hot on the heels of the well-received Leonardo da Vinci (2005) comes another agreeably chatty entry in the Giants of Science series. Here the pioneering physicist is revealed as undeniably brilliant, but also cantankerous, mean-spirited, paranoid and possibly depressive. Newton’s youth and annus mirabilis receive respectful treatment, the solitude enforced by family estrangement and then the plague seen as critical to the development of his thoughtful, methodical approach. His subsequent squabbles with the rest of the scientific community—he refrained from publishing one treatise until his rival was dead—further support the image of Newton as a scientific lone wolf. Krull’s colloquial treatment sketches Newton’s advances in clearly understandable terms without bogging the text down with detailed explanations. A final chapter on “His Impact” places him squarely in the pantheon of great thinkers, arguing that both his insistence on the scientific method and his theories of physics have informed all subsequent scientific thought. A bibliography, web site and index round out the volume; the lack of detail on the use of sources is regrettable in an otherwise solid offering for middle-grade students. (Biography. 10-14)
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