Wilson, Robin – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:17:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Wilson, Robin – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Isaac Newton https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/isaac-newton/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/isaac-newton/ A fully illustrated, accessible guide to the life and work of Isaac Newton, Britain's Greatest Scientist. Includes concise and easy-to-follow descriptions of Newton's work on gravity, motion, light, colour and calculus, as well as assessing his continuing legacy.  

]]> Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, is one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. This fully illustrated, accessible guide to the life and work of Isaac Newton is the perfect introduction to his groundbreaking work on gravity, motion, optics, light, colour and calculus. It also considers his lesser known research into chemistry, theology and alchemy while assessing his continuing legacy.

Organised chronologically, this book covers his childhood in rural Lincolnshire, school days in Grantham and undergraduate life at Trinity College, Cambridge. All of his major discoveries, breakthroughs and publications are lucidly described. Entries include: the story of the falling apple, Gravity and the Principia, Newton’s laws of motion, Optics, Alchemy and Divinity, as well as his time as Warden of the Royal Mint in London.

This is the essential guide to the life, work and legacy of one of the greatest geniuses of all time.

 

Organised chronologically, this book covers his childhood in rural Lincolnshire, school days in Grantham and undergraduate life at Trinity College, Cambridge. All of his major discoveries, breakthroughs and publications are lucidly described. Entries include: the story of the falling apple, Gravity and the Principia, Newtons laws of motion, Optics, Alchemy and Divinity, as well as his time as Warden of the Royal Mint in London.

 

This is the essential guide to the life, work and legacy of one of the greatest geniuses of all time.

]]> Four Colours Suffice https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/four-colours-suffice/ Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/four-colours-suffice/ The problem is simply stated, and involves the colouring of maps. Can every map be coloured with at most four colours so that neighbouring countries are coloured differently?

First posed 150 years ago, it took more than a century of colouring maps and developing the necessary theoretical machinery before the result was established with certainty. Even then, difficult philosophical questions remained.

With elegance and clarity, Robin Wilson explains the problem and the proof.

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