Hatcher's should be readiliy available from sources that stock this type of publication. Midway used to have it and certainly Amazon should have it. It's the best treatment of this topic I've stumbled into. It is also a wealth of information on other subjects - some of it is dated but a lot of it is as true today as it was then.

Despite what my kids tell me I don't think physics has changed all that much since my time or even Newton's - as long as you don't approach the speed of light or want to talk about the "speed of time" (see Stephen Hwkings "A Brief History of Time" - he's got Sir Isaac's job today).

With regards to the assertions regarding gravity, feathers, cannon balls etc. - Galileo actually started that line even though Newton shared in some later credits (try here - http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~philf/...at1/sld017.htm). As I recall Galileo was even older than Newton and I - although once again my kids dispute this.