Fatal Attraction - Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Fara is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and lectures in the University's highly regarded History and Philosophy of Science Department. Her previous books include: An Entertainment for Angels (Icon 2002); Newton (Macmillan, 2002); Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon 2003) and Pandora's Breeches (Pimlico 2004). Zusammenfassung A deftly written story of nature's most mystreious force, magnetism, and the spell it cast over three champions of enlightenment. Tales abounded of magnets' ability to attract reluctant lovers, but its expertise lay in he hands of seafarers, who had long used compasses to guide their ships.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Fara, Fara Patricia
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2005
• EAN: 9781840466324
• ISBN: 978-1-84046-632-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; popular science, ANF:Popular Science