Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine - Hardcover

Jones, Steve

9781681773094: Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine

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ISBN 10: 1681773090 ISBN 13: 9781681773094

Verlag: PEGASUS BOOKS, 2017

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Every section provides a richly informative guide to the history of a different scientific subject.

An ingenious guidebook to the scientific past of Paris, written in lucid, erudite prose.

A wonderful read.

With typical wit and easy storytelling, Jones makes his mark as a popular science historian.

Jones fashions an elegant, somewhat meandering, and never dull narrative about the rich contributions by Age of Enlightenment-era French scientists who were encouraged by the wobbly state and monarchy to come up with solutions to mankind's many problems. A passionately presented book that offers sparkling tangents for further study.

A sparkling scientific history. A fine homage to the evolution of game-changing science, born in the City of Light.

Jones' work highlights the crucible of scientific thought that was turn-of-the-18th-century France and all the places it has led human civilization.

An erudite mixture of science and history. Jones's style is engaging and accessible.

This well-written work covers an interesting, tragic, and dreadful period in France. A terrific background for any individual interested in the scientific events of this period. Highly recommended.

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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics.The city was saturated in scientists; many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris's first mayor was an astronomer, the general who fought off invaders was a mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the century around 1789 saw the first lightning conductor, the first flight, the first estimate of the speed of light and the invention of the tin can and the stethoscope. The theory of evolution came into being.Perhaps the greatest Revolutionary scientist of all, Antoine Lavoisier, founded modern chemistry and physiology, transformed French farming, and much improved gunpowder manufacture. His political activities brought him a fortune, but in the end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him—and many other researchers— to death claimed that "the Revolution has no need for geniuses."In this enthralling and dazzling book, acclaimed science writer Steve Jones shows how wrong this was and takes a new look at Paris, its history, and its science, to give the reader dazzling new insight into the City of Light.

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VerlagPEGASUS BOOKS
Erscheinungsdatum2017
ISBN 10 1681773090
ISBN 13 9781681773094
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SpracheEnglisch
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