Michael White
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 7
Description
With the best detectives in the business, cutting edge technology and offices around the globe, there is no investigation agency quite like Private. Now, at a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private throws open its doors. Craig Gisto and his newly formed team have barely raised their glasses, however, when a young Asian man, blood-soaked and bullet-ridden, staggers into the party, and what looks like a botched kidnapping...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Michael White's biography argues that Leonardo was, through the scope of his investigations and his desire to push back the boundaries of knowledge, nothing less than 'The First Scientist'. Exploring the legacy of research he left behind - lost for two hundred years after his death, and probably half of it lost for ever - White finds evidence not just of a true polymath but of a true man of science. His notebooks contain thoughts on such diverse...
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
"Drawing upon material found in Newton's vast library," the author tells of a man who "lusted after self-promotion and power" and was "driven to investigate everything that puzzled him, expended a vast amount of time and effort studying the chronology of the Bible, examining prophecy, investigating natural magic--perhaps even the black arts--and attempting to unravel the hermetic secrets, the prisca sapientia."--Jacket.