Krull, Kathleen.

Isaac Newton / by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Boris Kulikov. - New York : Viking, c2006. - 126 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Giants of science. . - Krull, Kathleen. Giants of science. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

All alone -- The great escape -- A new world -- The apple -- Newton versus Hooke -- Newton versus Leibniz -- Newton versus Flamsteed -- The greatest science book in the world -- Newton versus Newton -- And what about alchemy? -- The crimson years -- His impact.

Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.

Ages 10 up.

ISBN: 0670059218

LCCN: 2005017741

Subjects--Personal Names:
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physicists--Great Britain--Biography.
Children's literature--2007.

LC Class. No.: QC16.N7 / K78 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 530/.092 B