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About Edward Dolnick
See more books from this AuthorEventually, Edmund Halley persuaded Newton to publish his theories of gravity and its mathematical underpinnings, creating a paradigm of scientific work that would last for nearly 200 years.
Feb 08 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...Then Newton used his calculus to show how an apple is pulled to the earth and how the earth pulls the moon into an orbit, and how these pulls are the same as the sun’s on the planets.
Mar 25 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...The Royal Society's history of open-minded debate epitomizes science as a self-correcting process
Feb 26 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...Mr. Dolnick presents the stories in a way that forces a modern audience sit up and take notice of the stories themselves.The Clockwork Universe reads much like a litany of classic stories of classic characters.
Feb 08 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...New York City Ballet: Something old, something new.
Mar 10 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...He diligently describes conditions at the time — life was nasty, brutish and short, to quote the 17th-century great Thomas Hobbes — to establish what a revolution in thought was underway.
Feb 10 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...While members carried out many experiments that were changing the way scientists thought about the world the underlying thesis still held sway, that God created the world even to its most minute detail.
| Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...In THE CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE, Edward Dolnick gives the reader a sense of the world that the scientific greats of the early modern period inhabited, and lets us see that there was more than dry formulae to their lives.
Jan 30 2011 | Read Full Review of The Clockwork Universe: Isaac...An aggregated and normalized score based on 133 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes