Isaac the alchemist :

By: Losure, Mary [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780763670634 (hardcover); 0763670634 (hardcover)Other title: Isaac the alchemist secrets of Isaac Newton, revealedSubject(s): Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Juvenile literature | Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Childhood and youth | Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literatureGenre/Form: Biographies.
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

Middle School.

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