Newton

Author: Jiang Lai, Xiao Fen (editors)
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is a biographical reading material. It vividly records the life of the great 17th-century British scientist, Isaac Newton. Newton was born in a remote village and was the illegitimate son of a farmer. His impoverished childhood made him shy and lonely. A teacher once predicted, "This child will certainly be a very dull and foolish person." Yet, it was this quiet, taciturn child who later, through his own genius and diligence, discovered the law of universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, made significant contributions to the advancement of human science in mathematics, astronomy, optics, and other fields, and became a scientific giant respected worldwide.