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Newton

Apple’s handheld computer that you wrote on by hand with a special stylus. Jobs shut the project down after his return.

Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson

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• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
• Self-Help, Samuel Smiles

  Isaac Newton (1643-1727), an English physicist and mathematician who discovered the law of universal gravitation.

• Reincarnation and Karma, Rudolf Steiner

  Isaac Newton, creator of classical mechanics and of the law of universal gravitation, who lived in England in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Burton G. Malkiel

  Isaac Newton, the English physicist and mathematician. As Malkiel tells it, he lost a great deal of money in the South Sea Company bubble.

• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

  Isaac Newton, the seventeenth century English physicist and mathematician. He discovered the law of universal gravitation: every body pulls on every other body.

• A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Stephen Hawking

  Isaac Newton was a seventeenth century English scientist. He discovered the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Isaac Newton, an English scientist of the 17th century. He discovered the law of universal gravitation: the same force makes an apple fall and keeps the Moon in orbit.

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