The Philosophical Breakfast Club - Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World

“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ -- The Historian of science and philosopher Laura J. Snyder This absorbing narrative of people, science and ideas "The lives and works of these men come across as fit for Masterpiece Theatre.” -- "Snyder succeeds famously in evoking the excitement, variety and wide-open sense of possibility of the scientific life in 19th-century Britain...splendidly evoked in this engaging book.” -- "This fine book is as wide-ranging and anecdotal, as excited and exciting, as those long-ago Sunday morning conversations at Cambridge. Washington Post <...

Product details

• Authors: Laura J Snyder, Laura J. Snyder
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2012
• EAN: 9780767930499
• ISBN: 978-0-7679-3049-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)