Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist - Couverture rigide

Fullmer, June Z.

 
9780871692375: Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0871692376 ISBN 13 : 9780871692375
Editeur : American Philosophical Society Press, 2000

Synopsis

Humphry Davy's contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy's death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his association of electrical properties & chemical behavior coupled with his fame as a lecturer, made him a popular cultural hero. Others saw him as the man who had made agriculture "scientific." Davy's refusal to profit financially from his invention of the miners' safety lamp endeared him to those humanitarians who idealized scientists as members of an altruistic brotherhood. Here is a readable, thoroughly researched biography of Davy's early life. Illus.

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Éditeur
American Philosophical Society Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0871692376
ISBN 13 
9780871692375
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
385
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