{"id":2458,"date":"2012-10-28T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2012-10-28T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T08:44:53","slug":"isaac-newton-and-his-apple-dead-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/28\/isaac-newton-and-his-apple-dead-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Newton and his Apple (Dead Famous)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51-uiqxOaHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"Newton\" \/> <\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top\">\n<p>We have all heard of Sir Issac Newton, that is right the guy who got hit on the head by a falling apple, well as the story goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Isaac Newton and his Apple<\/em>, Kjartan Poskitt describes in an entertaining and graphic way (illustrations by Phillip Reeve) the life and times of Newton. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The book, aimed children 9 and above, described Newton&#8217;s troubled life, his not very pleasant demeanor, his feud with Hooke and arguments with Leibniz.  The book is scattered with other historical facts that help set the scene of Newton&#8217;s life. <\/p>\n<p>And of course, it describes his mathematical genius and his catchy titled book <em>Philosophi\u00e6 Naturalis Principia Mathematica<\/em>. Interestingly, <em>Isaac Newton and his Apple<\/em> does contain a little proper mathematics. The ideas of Newton&#8217;s laws and even the dreaded calculus are presented with some mathematics. This should not scare anyone, you can, without spoiling the story too much, skip the mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>192 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Hippo; 1 edition (15 Oct 1999)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0590114069<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0590114066<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have all heard of Sir Issac Newton, that is right the guy who got hit on the head by a falling apple, well as the story goes&#8230; In Isaac Newton and his Apple, Kjartan Poskitt describes in an entertaining and graphic way (illustrations by Phillip Reeve) the life and times of Newton. The book, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/28\/isaac-newton-and-his-apple-dead-famous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Isaac Newton and his Apple (Dead Famous)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}