Product Description

You've probably heard of Isaac Newton. He is dead famous for: discovering gravity, being a right clever dick and getting hit on the head with an apple. But have you heard that Isaac: came bottom of the class at school, poked sticks in his eye and nearly blinded himself and nearly got himself executed?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120674 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-15
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Author
The science genius who took on the underworld
When I was researching this book I was amazed to find there was a lot more to Isaac Newton than just being hit on the head with an apple! Did you know he used to shove pointed sticks into his eyeballs to see what happened? At school he scrunched the bully's face into a church wall, later on he fell out with almost everybody he met, some of his experiments bordered on witchcraft and he personally signed many criminal's death warrants...and there's lots more all in this book. Amoungst all the other gruesome facts, there's newpaper reports on the plague, the great fire of London and the executions of the time, plus a simple step by step guide to Newton's greatest discoveries inclucing Calculus, Gravity and Colours. This book (illustrated with loads of superb pictures and cartoon strips by the excellent Philip Reeve ) provides a gory, fascinating and fact-packed read for anyone aged 9 to 99.

Customer Reviews

A good historical read for an older child.
From the popular DEAD FAMOUS series of books, `Isaac Newton and his Apple`.

`Even though he lived 300 years ago and he wasn`t a king or anything obvious like that, nearly everybody has heard of Isaac Newton.
What`s more, he will always be dead famous until the end of time - but do you know why?
One day Isaac was sitting in his garden under an apple tree when......'

192 pages, split into chapters:

Why is Isaac Newton dead famous?
The strange tayle of Alice
A miserable start
So Isaac, what do you really do?
Aristotle and some other blokes
Isaac's friend
A flying start
A spot of plague
Calculus: the maths miracle
The big `G'
Alice drops a hint...
.....and Isaac takes it
A flash of colour
The second maths miracle
Hot stuff in London
The secret heretic
Back to Cambridge
Isaac gets dead famous
Isaac's odder occupations
Isaac gets a kick-start
Three blokes have a coffee
The end of ether
Isaac's new support team
The big big book of science
Meanwhile on the throne....
At last, some new friends
The forger's nightmare
Isaac's spare time
Isaac gets his final answer
After Isaac
Alice bows out

Written in a variety of fonts with humorous black and white cartoon illustrations throughout, this is a good read for an older child.

This book is a great inspiration!
Even though i'm 20, i picked up this book because of my lil bro who's 12. I sat, opened the book and couldn't put it down! it took me less than a day to read it, and it not only taught me about Sir Isaac Newton, but inspired me to learn further, & not give up on work!

Mad genius - a great story
A friend told me to read this book, but to miss out the difficult science bits. It was amazing. Isaac Newton was really clever, but really nasty! He did some awful experiments and nearly burnt himself to death. When I went back to read the science bits he invented like gravity and maths I found I could understand them quite well. A really good book to read to for anybody (even if you don't like science much!) It's got really good cartoons and pictures too.