Author: John BanvillePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Newton Letter
Author: John BanvillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Newton Letter
Author: John BanvillePublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330523775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
'A nearly perfectly fashioned work of art' – Irish Times The third in his thematically-connected Revolutions Trilogy, The Newton Letter is an exceptional work of literature from John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. A historian, on the brink of completing a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in southern Ireland for the summer. As the summer wears on and he dissects Newton’s mental collapse of 1693 he becomes distracted by the mysterious occupants of Fern House and finds himself constructing their imagined histories to powerful effect. His elaborate attempts to decipher the complex web of relationships are, however, far from accurate . . .
The Newton Letter
Author: John BanvillePublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780749398187
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Letters by The Rev. John Newton
Author: John NewtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley
Author: Isaac NewtonPublisher:
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Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
The Revolutions Trilogy
Author: John BanvillePublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330373470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This trilogy of novels concerned with outstanding Renaissance scientists appears for the first time in one volume: DR COPERNICUS, KEPLER and THE NEWTON LETTER.
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Author: Thomas LevensonPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime that the law equated with treason), but was trying to take over the Mint itself. But Chaloner had no idea who he was taking on. Newton pursued his enemy with the cold, implacable logic that he brought to his scientific research. Set against the backdrop of early eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog, its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and revenge transforms our image of Britain's greatest scientist.
The Correspondence of Isaac Newton
Author: Sir Isaac NewtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scientists
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
New Theory about Light and Colour
Author: Sir Isaac NewtonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465595619
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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To perform my late promise to you, I shall without further ceremony acquaint you, that in the beginning of the Year 1666 (at which time I applyed my self to the grinding of Optick glasses of other figures than Spherical,) I procured me a Triangular glass-Prisme, to try therewith the celebrated Phænomena of Colours. And in order thereto having darkened my chamber, and made a small hole in my window-shuts, to let in a convenient quantity of the Suns light, I placed my Prisme at his entrance, that it might be thereby refracted to the opposite wall. It was at first a very pleasing divertisement, to view the vivid and intense colours produced thereby; but after a while applying my self to consider them more circumspectly, I became surprised to see them in an oblong form; which, according to the received laws of Refraction, I expected should have been circular. They were terminated at the sides with streight lines, but at the ends, the decay of light was so gradual, that it was difficult to determine justly, what was their figure; yet they seemed semicircular. Comparing the length of this coloured Spectrum with its breadth, I found it about five times greater; a disproportion so extravagant, that it excited me to a more then ordinary curiosity of examining, from whence it might proceed. I could scarce think, that the various Thickness of the glass, or the termination with shadow or darkness, could have any Influence on light to produce such an effect; yet I thought it not amiss, first to examine those circumstances, and so tryed, what would happen by transmitting light through parts of the glass of divers thicknesses, or through holes in the window of divers bignesses, or by setting the Prisme without so, that the light might pass through it, and be refracted before it was terminated by the hole: But I found none of those circumstances material. The fashion of the colours was in all these cases the same.
Letters by the Rev. John Newton of Olney and St. Mary Woolnoth, Including Several Never Before Published, With Biographical Sketches and Illustrative
Author: John NewtonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017445909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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