Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine
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.The city was saturated in scientists; many had an...
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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.The city was saturated in scientists; many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheava
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781681773094 (1681773090)
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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