Revolutionary science: transformation and turmoil in the age of the guillotine
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Beteilige Person: Jones, Steve 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Pegasus Books [2017]
Ausgabe:First Pegasus Books hardcover edition
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Abstract:"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
Umfang:xxx, 353 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781681773094