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Out of the shadow of a giant : Hooke, Halley and the birth of science /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gribbin, John, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Halley, Edmond, > 1656-1742.
Hooke, Robert, > 1635-1703.
Newton, Isaac, > 1642-1727.
Science > Great Britain > History.
Science > History.
Table of 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.