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Author:
Gribbin, John, 1946- author.
Title:
Out of the shadow of a giant : Hooke, Halley and the birth of science / John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xvi, 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject:
Halley, Edmond,--1656-1742.
Hooke, Robert,--1635-1703.
Newton, Isaac,--1642-1727.
Science--Great Britain--History.
Science--History.
Guidebooks.
Notes:
Includes bibliography (pages 286-289) and index.
Contents:
From Freshwater to Oxford -- The most ingenious book that ever I read in my life -- Monumental achievements -- Meanwhile .... -- From Hackney to the high seas -- Of spring and secretaryship -- A mission of gravity -- Halley, Newton and the comet -- Not fade away -- To command a king's ship -- Legacies.
ISBN:
0300226756
9780300226751
OCLC:
(OCoLC)982652271
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

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