Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd

by Mary Losure

Hardcover, 2017

Library's review

This engaging non-fiction narrative of the life of Sir Isaac Newton features extensive primary source images, quotations, and samples from his own notebooks. They provide insight into the father of physics and one of the greatest scientists to have ever lived

Publication

Candlewick (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 176 pages

Description

Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built handmade machines, and experimented with alchemy--a process of chemical reactions that seemed, at the time, to be magical. Mary Losure's riveting narrative nonfiction account of Isaac's early life traces his development as a thinker from his childhood, in friendly prose that will capture the attention of today's budding scientists--as if by magic.

Language

Original language

English

Pages

176

Physical description

176 p.; 9.38 inches

ISBN

0763670634 / 9780763670634

DDC/MDS

530.092
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