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On Christmas Day 1642, a farmer's wife gave birth to a baby boy in Lincolnshire, England. Isaac Newton was a sickly child who found it difficult to make friends. When it came to farming, he got into trouble for letting the pigs go astray and the fences fall down. But he was fascinated by inventions, spending his time carving sundials and making kites. No one would have guessed that, when Newton grew up, he would be one the the greatest scientists...
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[2008], c2005
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English
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Chronicles the life of sixteenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei, who changed the world with his discovery that Earth is not the center of the universe but, rather, revolves around the sun, and discusses his investigation by the Inquisition.
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