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Isaac Newton

And the Scientific Revolution

By: Gale E. Christianson

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Isaac Newton

And the Scientific Revolution

By: Gale E. Christianson

In 1665, when an epidemic of the plague forced Cambridge University to close, Isaac Newton, then a young, undistinguished scholar, returned to his childhood home in rural England. Away from his colleagues and professors, Newton embarked on one of the greatest intellectual odysseys in the history of science: he began to formulate the law of universal gravitation, developed the calculus, and made revolutionary discoveries about the nature of light. After his return to Cambridge, Newton's genius was quickly recognized and his reputation forever established. This biography also allows us to see the personal side of Newton, whose life away from science was equally fascinating. Quarrelsome, quirky, and not above using his position to silence critics and further his own career, he was an authentic genius with all too human faults.

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Oxford University Press

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0199762368

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Edwin Hubble

Mariner of the Nebulae

By: Gale E. Christianson

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Edwin Hubble

Mariner of the Nebulae

By: Gale E. Christianson

Traces the life and work of Edwin Hubble, who discovered that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies and that the universe is expanding.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226105210

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9780226105215

Fox at the Wood's Edge

A Biography of Loren Eiseley

By: Gale E. Christianson

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A Biography of Loren Eiseley

By: Gale E. Christianson

Presents a biography of the naturalist and writer, describing how his work stems from his loveless childhood with a mentally ill mother and traveling salesman father and his determination to succeed.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803264100

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9780803264106

The Last Posse

A Jailbreak, a Manhunt, and the End of Hang-'Em-High Justice

By: Gale E. Christianson

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The Last Posse

A Jailbreak, a Manhunt, and the End of Hang-'Em-High Justice

By: Gale E. Christianson

A riveting true story of vintage crime--and mint-new justice--in the last days of the Old West.

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Lyons Press

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1585747858

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Isaac Newton

And the Scientific Revolution

By: Gale E. Christianson

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Edwin Hubble

Mariner of the Nebulae

By: Gale E. Chrisitanson

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Edwin Hubble

Mariner of the Nebulae

By: Gale E. Chrisitanson

Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae is both the biography of an extraordinary human being and the story of the greatest quest in the history of astronomy since the Copernican revolution. The book is a revealing portrait of scientific genius, an incisive engaging history of ideas, and a shimmering evocation of what we see when gazing at the stars. Born in 1889 and reared in the village of Marshfield, Missouri, Edwin Powell Hubble-star athlete, Rhodes Scholar, military officer, and astronomer- became one of the towering figures in twentieth-century science. Hubble worked with the great 100-inch Hooker telescope at California's Mount Wilson Observatory and made a series of discoveries that revolutionized humanity's vision of the cosmos. In 1923 he was able to confirm the existence of other nebulae (now known to be galaxies) beyond our own Milky Way. By the end of the decade, Hubble had proven that the universe is expanding, thus laying the very cornerstone of the big bang theory of creation. It was Hubble who developed the elegant scheme by which the galaxies are classified as ellipticals and spirals, and it was Hubble who first provided reliable evidence that the universe is homogeneous, the same in all directions as far as the telescope can see. An incurable Anglophile with a penchant for tweed jackets and English briars, Hubble, together with his brilliant and witty wife, Grace Burke, became a fixture in Hollywood society in the 1930s and 40s. They counted among their friends Charlie Chaplin, the Marx brothers, Anita Loos, Aldous and Maria Huxley, Walt Disney, Helen Hayes, and William Randolph Hearst. Albert Einstein, a frequent visitor to Southern California, called Hubble's work "beautiful" and modified his equations on relativity to account for the discovery that the cosmos is expanding.

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Routledge

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1351453858

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Fox at the Wood's Edge

A Biography of Loren Eiseley

By: Gale E. Christianson

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A Biography of Loren Eiseley

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Presents a biography of the naturalist and writer, describing how his work stems from his loveless childhood with a mentally ill mother and traveling salesman father and his determination to succeed.

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Isaac Newton

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Isaac Newton

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Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family to become one of the towering intellects of science. Now, in this fast-paced, colorful biography, Gale E. Christianson paints an engaging portrait of Newton and the times in which he lived. We follow Newton from his childhood in rural England to his student days at Cambridge, where he devoured the works of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, and taught himself mathematics. There ensued two miraculous years at home in Woolsthorpe Manor, where he fled when plague threatened Cambridge, a remarkably fertile period when Newton formulated his theory of gravity, a new theory of light, and calculus--all by his twenty-fourth birthday. Christianson describes Newton's creation of the first working model of the reflecting telescope, which brought him to the attention of the Royal Society, and he illuminates the eighteen months of intense labor that resulted in his Principia, arguably the most important scientific work ever published. The book sheds light on Newton's later life as master of the mint in London, where he managed to convict and hang the arch criminal William Chaloner (a remarkable turn for a once reclusive scholar), and his presidency of the Royal Society, which he turned from a dilettante's club into an eminent scientific organization. Christianson also explores Newton's less savory side, including his long, bitter feud with Robert Hooke and the underhanded way that Newton established his priority in the invention of calculus and tarnished Liebniz's reputation. Newton was an authentic genius with all too human faults. This book captures both sides of this truly extraordinary man.

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Oxford University Press

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0198041187

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The Last Posse

A Jailbreak, a Manhunt, and the End of Hang-'Em-High Justice

By: Gale E. Christianson

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The Last Posse

A Jailbreak, a Manhunt, and the End of Hang-'Em-High Justice

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A riveting true story of vintage crime--and mint-new justice--in the last days of the Old West.

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Lyons Press

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Greenhouse

The 200-year Story of Global Warming

By: Gale E. Christianson

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Greenhouse

The 200-year Story of Global Warming

By: Gale E. Christianson

There is no longer any doubt that the Earth is getting hotter: the question remains, why? Combining the research of a scholar with a novelist's storytelling skill, Gale Christianson weaves together incredible events and unlikely characters to create a fascinating account of the phenomenon of global warming -- the so-called "greenhouse effect". From the demise of the Anasazi in the American Southwest to the 1997 Kyoto Conference on the Environment, Christianson's narrative sheds new light on what may be the most remarkable change in the environment since the retreat of the glaciers some 10,000 years ago. A dynamic and lively history of science, this compelling book will also lead readers to rethink the unique relationship we have to the world we live in.

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Constable Limited

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0094800308

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9780094800304

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