Cambridge Science Biographies – serie
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15 produkter
Justus von Liebig
The Chemical Gatekeeper
Av William H. Brock, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
976 kr
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One of the founding fathers of organic chemistry and also a great teacher, the German scientist Justus von Liebig transformed scientific education, medical practice, and agriculture in Great Britain. William H. Brock's fresh interpretation of Liebig's stormy career shows how he moved chemistry into …
Charles Darwin
The Man and his Influence
Av Peter J. Bowler, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1503 kr
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Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, yet underpinning the Victorian concept of progress, and today still evokes powerful and …
Henry More
and the Scientific Revolution
Inbunden, 1996
1555 kr
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Henry More (1614-87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists. An admirer of Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle, he rejected their detailed applications of …
Justus von Liebig
The Chemical Gatekeeper
Inbunden, 1997
2182 kr
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One of the founding fathers of organic chemistry and also a great teacher, the German scientist Justus von Liebig transformed scientific education, medical practice, and agriculture in Great Britain. William H. Brock's fresh interpretation of Liebig's stormy career shows how he moved chemistry into …
Humphry Davy
Science and Power
Av David Knight, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
950 kr
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In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks, and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc lamp, for isolating sodium and potassium, …
Charles Darwin
The Man and his Influence
Av Peter J. Bowler, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
448 kr
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Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, yet underpinning the Victorian concept of progress, and today still evokes powerful and …
Isaac Newton
Adventurer in Thought
Av A. Rupert Hall, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
863 kr
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In this elegant, absorbing biography of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), Rupert Hall surveys the vast field of modern scholarship in order to interpret Newton's mathematical and experimental approach to nature. Mathematics was always the deepest, most innovative and productive of Newton's interests. …
André-Marie Ampère
Enlightenment and Electrodynamics
Häftad, 2006
1036 kr
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In this authoritative biography, James Hofmann examines the extraordinary life of André-Marie Ampère, who made original, significant contributions to mathematics and chemistry and is renowned for his new branch of physics - electrodynamics. A member of the Académie des Sciences, and professor at …
Galileo
Decisive Innovator
Av Michael Sharratt, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
448 kr
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In this entertaining and authoritative biography Michael Sharratt examines the flair, imagination, hard-headedness, clarity, combativeness, and penetration of Galileo Galilei. To follow his career as he exploited unforeseen opportunities to unseat established ways of comprehending nature is to …
Antoine Lavoisier
Science, Administration and Revolution
Häftad, 1996
760 kr
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This biography represents a comprehensive, accessible account of the great eighteenth-century French chemist and administrator, Antoine Lavoisier. Historians of science know Lavoisier as a founder of modern chemistry. Students of the French Revolution know him as an important financier and …
Mary Somerville
Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind
Inbunden, 2001
1351 kr
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In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her gender identity and by creating rich, readable, …
Mary Somerville
Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind
Av Kathryn A. Neeley, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
471 kr
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In an era when science was perceived as a male domain, Mary Somerville (1780-1872) became both the leading woman scientist of her day and an integral part of the British scientific community. She achieved this status through careful management of her gender identity and by creating rich, readable, …
Thomas Huxley
Making the 'Man of Science'
Av Paul White
Inbunden, 2002
1529 kr
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Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic …
Thomas Huxley
Making the 'Man of Science'
Av Paul White
Häftad, 2002
634 kr
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Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of ecclesiastical authority and aristocratic …
Henry More
and the Scientific Revolution
Av A. Rupert Hall, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Häftad, 2002
1105 kr
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Henry More (1614-87) was the greatest English metaphysical theologian and the most perplexing; he was also perhaps the most distinguished member of the group of divines known as the Cambridge Platonists. An admirer of Galileo, Descartes, and Boyle, he rejected their detailed applications of …
