Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

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Overview

Kathleen Krull’s biographies for young readers have received accolades from publications such as Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, and here she profiles Sir Isaac Newton—the father of calculus and the man who pioneered studies of gravity

What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and, oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just “by thinking on it,” he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity. Yet Newton was so small-minded that he set out to destroy other scientists who dared question his findings.

This compelling portrait of Newton, contradictions and all, places him against the backdrop of 17th-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions. Krull details Newton’s lonely childhood, his education, and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with contemporaries in this captivating and concise look at one of history’s greatest geniuses.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781094089225
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication date: 03/17/2020
Series: Giants of Science Series , #2
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Kathleen Krull’s Giants of Science books are recognized as a unique series in which biography, social history, and scientific discoveries blend together into compellingly readable books for older readers. The books in the Giants of Science series—Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin—have garnered a galaxy of starred book reviews. Kathleen Krull lives in San Diego, California. Visit her at KathleenKrull.com.


Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.

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