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Experimental Self Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226351360, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth...
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£24,00
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Pure Intelligence The Life of William Hyde Wollaston
ISBN: HB: 9780226245737, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2015
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 32 line drawings, 10 tables
William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the ph...
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£28,00
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