Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd / Mary Losure.
Losure, Mary, author.
2017
QC16.N7 L67 2017 (Mapit)
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Title Isaac the alchemist : secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd / Mary Losure.
Author Losure, Mary, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780763670634 (hardcover)
0763670634 (hardcover)
Published Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
Language English
Description 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number QC16.N7 L67 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 530/.092 B
Summary Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built handmade machines, and experimented with alchemy--a process of chemical reactions that seemed, at the time, to be magical. Mary Losure's riveting narrative nonfiction account of Isaac's early life traces his development as a thinker from his childhood, in friendly prose that will capture the attention of today's budding scientists--as if by magic.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-158) and index.
Audience Middle School.
1010 Lexile.
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