TY  - BOOK
AU  - Losure,Mary
TI  - Isaac the alchemist: secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd 
SN  - 9780763670634 (hardcover)
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Newton, Isaac,
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The apothecary's house -- Book of mysteries -- Stars -- School -- Siege weapons -- An inclination for mechanics -- Chymistry -- Triumph and recreation -- Hemlock, henbane, mandrake root -- What good is such a bookish boy? -- Truth is my greater friend -- Astrology ... to mathematics ... to the ghosts of light -- The comet -- Year of wonders -- Isaac's alchemy begins -- Enter the Royal Society -- Isaac the alchemist -- Transformations; Middle School; 1010; Lexile
N2  - Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built handmade machines, and experimented with alchemy--a process of chemical reactions that seemed, at the time, to be magical. Mary Losure's riveting narrative nonfiction account of Isaac's early life traces his development as a thinker from his childhood, in friendly prose that will capture the attention of today's budding scientists--as if by magic
ER  -