Chargement en cours…

The Newton letter : an interlude /

A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he needs, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What possessed him to write that strange letter to his fr...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Banville, John, 1945- (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:anglais
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 ml2025008318
003 PUMLC
005 20250207143141.0
008 830523s1982 enk o0001f eng u
040 |b eng  |e rda  |d PUMLC 
082 0 0 |a FICTION 
100 1 0 |a Banville, John,  |d 1945-  |9 5535,  |e author 
245 1 4 |a The Newton letter :  |b an interlude /  |c John Banville. 
264 0 |a London :  |b Secker and Warburg,  |c 1982. 
300 0 0 |a 82 pages :  |c 24cm. 
380 |a Novel 
520 |a A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he needs, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What possessed him to write that strange letter to his friend John Locke? But in the long seeping summer days, old sloth and present reality take over. 
942 |2 ddc  |c BK  |n 0 
952 |0 0  |1 0  |2 ddc  |4 0  |6 F_B219N  |7 0  |8 F  |9 11998  |a ML015  |b ML015  |c F  |d 2019-07-29  |o F B219n  |p 008318  |r 2018-03-23 00:00:00  |w 2018-03-23  |y BK 
999 |c 8324  |d 8324