Isaac Newton (Giants of Science Series #2)

Isaac Newton was not only briiliant but secretive vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man contradictions and all than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England a time of plague the Great Fire of London and two revolutions.Presents a biography of Isaac Newton a celebrated genius of his time who invented calculus and gave a scientific explanation of gravity but also tried to destroy other scientists who questioned his work.