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consequently thought necessary to recall Isaac from the school. His recently- born industry had been such that he had already made good progress in his studies, and his mother hoped that he would now lay aside his books, and those silent meditations to which, even at this early age, he had become addicted. It was expected that, instead of such pursuits, which were deemed quite useless, the boy would enter busily into the duties of the farm and the details of a country life. But before long it became manifest that the study of nature and the pursuit of knowledge had such a fascination for the youth that he could give little attention to aught else. It was plain that he would make but an indifferent farmer. He greatly preferred experimenting on his water-wheels to looking after labourers, while he found that working at mathematics behind a hedge was much more interesting than chaffering about the price of bullocks in the marketplace. Fortunately for humanity his mother, like a wise woman, determined to let her boy’s genius have the scope which it required. He was accordingly sent back to Grantham school, with the object of being trained in the knowledge which would fit him for entering the university of Cambridge. 6
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Great Astronoms Isaac Newton
Title
Great Astronoms
Subtitle
Isaac Newton
Author
Robert S. Ball
Date
1907
Language
English
License
PD
Size
21.0 x 29.7 cm
Pages
22
Keywords
Astronom, Philosopher, Englisch, English, Astronomie, Philosophie
Categories
International
Naturwissenschaften Physik

Table of contents

  1. Chapter 1 4
  2. Chapter 2 7
  3. Chapter 3 12
  4. Chapter 4 18
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