Introducing Newton. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Newton for beginners
• Further Information: Note: William Rankin ; originating editor: Richard Appignanesi.
• Authors: Rankin, William, 1947-
• Editors: Appignanesi, Richard
• Other Names: Rankin, William 1947- artist.; Rankin, William, 1947-
• Contents: It's the thought that counts -- On the banks of the Nile -- By the waters of Babylon -- All is number -- A cloud of infinity -- Squaring the circle -- The conic sections -- Exhaustion -- Plus ça change -- Skirting the problem -- Geometry at play -- Death of original thought -- Born so little -- What day is it? -- Childe Isaac -- Skool -- Windmills -- Nature and art -- What's the time? -- Fireworks -- Strange inventions -- Sober silent thinking lad -- First experiment -- Low employments -- Teacher's pet -- Restoration -- Cambridge in turmoil -- Sizar -- Chums -- Ye official curriculume -- Common sense -- Physics -- Crystalline spheres -- Wandering stars -- Reasonable arrangement -- Motions of Mars -- On the revolutions -- The key -- Perfect solids -- It fits -- Meet Tycho -- Super nova -- Closely observed stars -- Perfect and unchanging -- The sleepwalker -- Reckoning made easier -- The shape of the universe -- Kepler's second law -- Harmony of the worlds -- The Rudolphine tables -- Kepler passes away -- The wrangler -- Father of the telescope -- The starry messenger -- First and alone -- First warning -- Two grand systemes -- Going round in circles -- Conclusive proof -- The first family -- Beyond understanding -- A trial -- Two new sciences -- The finger -- Like clockwork -- Principles of philosophy -- The whys and wherefores -- The vortex -- Perpetual motion -- The book of nature -- A universal philosophy -- Spirit of nature -- Nasty, brutish and short -- Blazing star -- Swift & furious -- A trifling book -- The quantity of quality -- Fatiguing the imagination -- Expanding -- Hyperbole -- A state of flux -- The fall -- Pretty nearly -- The Lucasian chair -- A bare bodkin -- Darkness & light -- Paradoxicall assertion -- Flaws in the glass -- The crux of the matter -- On reflection -- Telescope -- Diminished acquaintance -- Going public -- Promotion of knowledge -- Odd detection -- Slave to philosophy -- Put out -- Utterly lost -- Subtle spirits -- Beyond human art -- Prisca sapientia -- The earth a vegetable -- Unsociableness -- Action at a distance -- Letter -- True worship -- Bible a fake -- False infernal religion -- The wager -- A fishy story -- Little smatterers -- The best bits -- Definitively -- Absolutely -- Laws -- Of motion -- First & last ratios -- A proposition -- In eccentric conics -- Pound shock horror error -- Spherical bodies -- Resisting mediums -- Lost in space -- System of the world -- Various phenomena ... -- ... Explained -- The tail -- Universal -- The world of law -- Fighting the beast -- Glorious revolution -- Friends -- Most unfortunate -- Nobody paying -- Threat to the state -- Connivers at abuses & cheats -- Tyburn tree -- The president -- God is space -- Newton's headache -- Gold ring -- Sextant -- Chagrin and mortal anger -- Empirical -- Chronology -- Prophecies -- The end -- Letter on England -- Rights of man -- Revolting French -- Republican virtue -- Nonsense on stilts -- Celestial revolutions -- The Enlightenment -- Eppur si muove* -- The limit -- Lost planet -- Dual nature -- At a distance -- A piercing eye -- Books -- Why a dog?
• Publisher Details: London : Icon Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 530.092; Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc; Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Popular works; Physics -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc; Physics -- History -- Popular works; Physique -- Histoire -- Bandes dessinées; Physique -- Histoire -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation; SCIENCE -- Energy; SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General; SCIENCE -- Physics -- General; Physicists; Physics; Great Britain; Biographies; illustrated books; Biographical comics; Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels; History; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Popular works; Illustrated works; Nonfiction comics; Biographical comics; Graphic novels; Biographies; Ouvrages illustrés; Bandes dessinées autres que de fiction; Bandes dessinées biographiques; Comic books, strips, etc; Popular works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848319820; 1848319827
• Related ISBNs: 9781848311763; 1848311761
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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