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Science 21 April 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5465, p. 447
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5465.447
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PHYSICS:
Professor Newton's Principles

A review by Chris Quigg

Thinking About Physics
Roger G. Newton
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2000. 208 pp. $24.95, £15.95. ISBN 0-691-00920-1.

Seeking to encourage thinking rather than simply doing, Roger Newton offers a thought-provoking overview of the concepts that form the framework for research in contemporary physics.
The author is in the Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Post Office Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA. E-mail: quigg{at}fnal.gov

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