Out of the shadow of a giant : Hooke, Halley and the birth of science / John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin.
2017
Q141 .G75 2017
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Title
Out of the shadow of a giant : Hooke, Halley and the birth of science / John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin.
Author
Gribbin, John, 1946- author.
ISBN
9780300231540 (electronic book)
0300231547 (electronic book)
9780300226751
0300226756
0300231547 (electronic book)
9780300226751
0300226756
Published
New Haven & London : Yale University Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
Q141 .G75 2017
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliography (pages 286-289) and index.
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Access limited to authorized users
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Description based on print version record.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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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.
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.