Revolutionary science: transformation and turmoil in the age of the guillotine

"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 ... In this ... book, ... science writer S...

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1. Verfasser: Jones, Steve 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Pegasus Books [2017]
Ausgabe:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition
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Zusammenfassung:"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 ... In this ... book, ... science writer Steve Jones ... takes a new look at Paris, its history, and its science, to give the reader ... new insight into the City of Light"--Amazon.com
Beschreibung:Originally published under title: No need for geniuses. London : Little, Brown, 2016
Includes index
Beschreibung:xxx, 353 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781681773094

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