No Need for Geniuses
Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine
$33.90
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2016
Summary
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today’s physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics.
Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris’s first mayor was an astronomer, the general who fought off invaders was a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408705964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408705966 |
| Author: | Steve Jones, Professor Steve Jones |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 156mm x 231mm |
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Critics Review
An ingenious guidebook to the scientific past of Paris, written in lucid, erudite prose – Ruth Scurr * New Statesman *
Every section provides a richly informative guide to the history of a different scientific subject - from evolution to the rise of the potato * Daily Mail *
A wonderful read * Guardian *
Jones makes his mark as a popular science historian * New Scientist *
[An] erudite mixture of science and history … a wide-ranging look at the discoveries of the era * Publishers Weekly *
The outcomes are never what anyone could have guessed, and watching Jones unfurl them is spellbinding – Peter Carey * Sunday Times *
Jones is an excellent writer of popular science, but he is also able to cross over seamlessly into lucid discussions of culture and history * Mail on Sunday *
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is a Senior Research Fellow at University College, London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the Reith Lectures in 1991 and presented a BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He appears frequently on radio and television.
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