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Hooke, Halley and the birth of science

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An edition of Out of the shadow of a giant (2017)

Out of the shadow of a giant

Hooke, Halley and the birth of science

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302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
302

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Subjects
Science, History, Halley, edmond, 1656-1742, Hooke, robert, 1635-1703, Newton, isaac, sir, 1642-1727, Science, great britain, Science, history, Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742, Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703, Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, Science -- Great Britain -- History, Science -- History
People
Edmond Halley (1656-1742), Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Robert Hooke (1635-1703)
Places
Great Britain

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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliography (pages 286-289) and index.

Classifications

Library of Congress
Q141 .G75 2017, Q141.G788 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
302

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26935240M
Internet Archive
outofshadowofgia0000grib
ISBN 10
0300226756
ISBN 13
9780300226751
OCLC/WorldCat
982652271

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