Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Hal
图书信息
| 作者 | John Gribbin,Mary Gribbin |
| 出版社 | HarperCollins Publishers |
| ISBN | 9780008220600 |
| 出版时间 | 2017-05-18 |
| 字数 | 53.0万 |
| 分类 | HarperCollins Publishers,进口书,外文原版书,科技,医学 |
读书简介
John Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (then under the leadership of Fred Hoyle), before working as a science journalist for Nature and later New Scientist. Mary Gribbin is a teacher with a special gift for communicating difficult concepts, and she is a previous winner of the TES Junior Information Book Award. They have co-written several titles for adults and children. John has written many bestselling popular science books, including Erwin Schr?dinger and the Quantum Revolution, In Search of the Multiverse and The Universe: A Biography. John and Mary are both Visiting Fellows at the University of Sussex.
目录
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Contents
Introduction: Out of the Shadows
A Note on Dates
Chapter 1: From Freshwater to Oxford
Chapter 2: The Most Ingenious Book That Ever I Read In My Life
Chapter 3: Monumental Achievements
Chapter 4: Meanwhile …
Chapter 5: From Hackney to the High Seas
Chapter 6: Of Spring and Secretaryship
Chapter 7: A Mission of Gravity
Chapter 8: Halley, Newton and the Comet
Chapter 9: Not Fade Away
Chapter 10: To Command a King’s Ship
Chapter 11: Legacies
Coda: How to do Science
Picture Section
Footnotes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Publisher
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