Astronomy and the Dawn of Reason - the Discoveries of Kepler, Brahe, Galileo and Isaac Newton - with Biographies and Illustrations V/A

Few men have made greater steps towards the modern understanding of the universe then the great renaissance and enlightenment scientists. Isaac Newton stood alone for centuries as the epitome of the isolated genius but in truth his isolation was not as complete as we think, he had other scientific greats to work with and whose work he could add to. As Newton once famously said "If I have seen further then others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants".