NEWTON AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF ASTRONOMERS

If, looking for your telescope, you try to project yourself from the city of Cambridge to the Antipodes, calculate your trajectory carefully! The slightest mistake could send you, following Isaac Newton, to the dark side of the Moon, from where Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, and a few others before him, had great difficulty in returning! This fantastic and scientific story brings together in an unexpected and humorous behind closed doors Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Halley, a few penguins and many comets... Some of the notions covered during this incredible adventure: heliocentrism, geocentrism; gravitational law, weight, mass; optical phenomena; demonstration, hypothesis, etc. The author: Marion Kadi is an artist, and Abram Kaplan is a historian of mathematics. They lived on different continents until a force far greater than gravity brought them together. This story is the fruit (an apple?) of their collision. The Illustrator: Tatiana Boyko is an illustrator born on the small, colorful island of Tenerife, but currently lives in London. When the turmoil of the world weighs on him too much, he sometimes takes refuge in the moon. 64p. - 14 x 21cm