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THE CALCULUS WARS - Newton, Leibniz and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All

THE CALCULUS WARS - Newton, Leibniz and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time Hardcover - 2006

by Bardi, Jason Socrates

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New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo. (viii) 277 pp. Quarter-bound in red on gold boards; lettered in black on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Preface; For Once It's Safe to Dream in Color - 1704; The Children of the Wars 1642 - 1664; The Trouble with Hooke 1664 - 1672; The Affair of the Eyebrow 1666 - 1673; Farewell and Think Kindly of Me 1673 - 1677; The Beginning of the Sublime Geometry 1678 - 1687; The Beautiful and the Damned 1687 - 1691; The Shortest Possible Descent 1690 - 1696; Newton's Apes 1696 - 1708; The Burden of Proof 1708 - 1712; The Flaws of Motion 1713 - 1716; and Purged of Ambiguity 1716 - 1728; followed by: Epilogue; Bibliographical Essay; Bibliography; and an index..
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Three hundred years ago, history was made when a forgotten English printing press pounded out a few hundred copies of a 348-page work written by a minor government administrator, the retired Cambridge University professor Isaac Newton.

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Jason Socrates Bardi obtained graduate degrees in molecular biophysics (M.A., 1998) and science writing (M.A., 2001) from Johns Hopkins University, and has since worked as a professional science writer for a number of companies, government agencies, and private institutions. He spent a year as a writer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, five years as the senior science writer at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, and is currently a writer and editor at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

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