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BOOK LIST | Newton: Ackroyd’s Brief Lives

By Science News

The book promises a personal history of Isaac Newton. Ackroyd also wrote Shakespeare: The Biography and London: The Biography.

Nan A. Talese, 2008 176 p. $21.95

NEWTON: ACKROYD’S BRIEF LIVES

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