The Clockwork Universe. Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. Paperback. xviii, 378p., (plus "Meet Author Dolnick" in 5 additional pages, plus unpaginated publisher's ads), later printing of the softbound edition featuring a generous vivid color-plate section. This is a very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked.
Whoa! Newton was "born sickly and premature but lived to 84 (and died a virgin)" --nobody ever told me that! Find a full-press treatment of the quarrel between Leibnitz and Newton and a couple other things.
Cat.No: 332336
ISBN: 9780061719523
Price: $18.00
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