Susannah Gibson

The Spirit of Inquiry

How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science. Sprachen: Englisch. 24,1 cm / 16,4 cm / 3,8 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 400 Seiten
EAN 9780198833376
Veröffentlicht Mai 2019
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press

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Despite its modest size the Cambridge Philosophical Society has played a monumental role in the history of science. To mark the bicentenary of its founding in 1819, Susannah Gibson gives a vivid account of the illustrious (and sometimes eccentric) members of the society, their breakthrough discoveries, and the forging of modern science.

Portrait

Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from Cambridge on the history of the life sciences of the eighteenth century, a master's degree in the history of nineteenth-century science, and a bachelor's degree in experimental physics. She is the author of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order (OUP, 2015), which was well reviewed in The Telegraph, The TLS, and The Independent, amongst other publications. She was formerly Manager of the Cambridge Literary Festival, and remains interested in both introducing new audiences to the history of science, and in bridging the gap between academic and popular writing.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: The fenland philosophers
2: The house on All Saints' Passage
3: Letters from the south
4: "The hidden worlds"
5: The misdeeds of Mr Crouch
6: A workbench of one's own
7: The laboratory in the library
8: "May it never be of any use to anybody"
9: Following the footsteps
Further reading
Index

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