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Coffee with Isaac Newton

Coffee with Isaac Newton( )
Author: White, Michael
Foreword by: Bryson, Bill
Series title:Coffee With... Ser.
ISBN:978-1-84483-611-6
Publication Date:Mar 2008
Publisher:Watkins Media Limited
Imprint:Duncan Baird Publishers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $9.95
Book Description:

Sir Isaac Newton formulated the concept of gravity, devised a radically new theory of light, and created a calculus that revolutionized mathematics. Join him for a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science! You’ll discover that there was far more to Sir Isaac than his great discoveries. Michael White, author of an award-winning biography of Newton, captures the essence of this prickly genius.

 

Book Details
Pages:144
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Biographical
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.13 x 5.31 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.53 Pounds
Author Biography
White, Michael (Author)
Michael White is a British writer. He was born in 1959 and studied at King's College London.

He has been a science editor of British GQ and a columnist for the Sunday Express in London. From 1984 to 1991, he was a science lecturer at d'Overbroeck's College in Oxford before becoming a full-time writer, of both fiction and non-fiction.

Among his non-fiction works are: Coffee with Newton, Galileo Antichrist: A Biography, The Fruits of War, Tolkien: A Biography, Leonardo: The First Scientist, and Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer. White also collaborated with John Gribbin on 'A Life in Science' Series, featuring biographies of Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

His novels include: The Art of Murder, The Borgia Ring, The Medici Secret, and Equinox. He has also written numerous novels under pseudonyms, including; the E-Force trilogy as Sam Fisher, and The Titanic Enigma, as Tom west.

Most recently, White co-wrote the international bestseller Private down Under, with James Patterson.

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