The Waste Books
$32.36
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath—an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322509 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940322501 |
| Author: | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, R.J. Hollingdale |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
About The Author
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742 in Oberramstadt, Germany. In 1763 he joined the University of Gottingen where he studied mathematics and the natural sciences and, in 1770 was appointed a professor at the university. In addition to his scientific writings, he wrote Letters from England and a book on Hogarth’s etchings. Lichtenberg died in 1799.
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