Stephen T Johnson

The Invention of Air

An experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery

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In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. Stephen Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the development of the United States itself. But Priestley's revolutionary ideas put him in terrible danger. Johnson uses the progress of Priestley and his colleagues not merely to describe the wonder of discovery, but to show us how we have come to understand the world, how far we have travelled with the power of human enquiry - and how one man's curiosi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-104491-0
EAN: 9780141044910
Produktnummer: 17830237
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 5'122 KB

Über den Autor

Steven Johnson is the author of the acclaimed books Everything Bad is Good for You (described as a 'must read' by Mark Thompson, head of the BBC), The Ghost Map, Mind Wide Open, Emergence and Interface Culture. His writing appeared in the Guardian, the New Yorker, Nation and Harper's, as well as the op-ed pages of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He is also the co-creator of several influential web sites: FEED, Plastic, and Outside.in. He has degrees in Semiotics and English Literature from Brown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three sons.