Humphry Davy - Science and Power - David Knight - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 1998 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
In this entertaining biography David Knight introduces us to Humphry Davy, one of the first professional scientists. Best remembered for his safety lamp, he taught Faraday chemistry, but is also recognized for his poetry and was friends with Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. This book illuminates science and its institutions in Regency Britain.
