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Newton

Ackroyd's Brief Lives

by Peter Ackroyd

2008 192 pages eng

When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the hi…

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