Cambridge Scientific Minds
Since the scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with Cambridge University. Cambridge Scientific Minds is a unique account of some of the University's most eminent thinkers over the last 400 years, including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and James Clerk Maxwell. While the rapid establishment during the Newtonian era of a series of professorships for mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, anatomy, botany, geology, and geometry marked the University's scientific coming of age, this volume's chronological balance reflects on the increasing importance of sc…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Harman, P. M. (Hrsg.) / Mitton, Simon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-78100-8
- EAN: 9780521781008
- Produktnummer: 1739142
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.5 cm 694 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 694
Über den Autor
Peter Harman is Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University. At Cambridge he lectured in the history of science and was a Research Fellow of Clare Hall. He has written several books published by Cambridge University Press. Simon Mitton studied physics at the University of Oxford, following which he did a PhD in radio astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is the Senior Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. This is his tenth book.
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