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The philosophical breakfast club : four remarkable friends who transformed science and changed the world / Laura J. Snyder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snyder, Laura J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Scientists.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Scientists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Intellectual life.
- Great Britain.
- Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.
- Babbage, Charles.
- Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871.
- Herschel, John F. W.
- Whewell, William, 1794-1866.
- Whewell, William.
- Jones, Richard, 1790-1855.
- Jones, Richard.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 439 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Broadway Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- Traces the influential friendship of William Whewell, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and Richard Jones, citing their pivotal contributions to a significant array of scientific achievements throughout the mid-nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Inventing the scientist
- Waterworks
- Philosophical breakfasts
- Experimental lives
- Mechanical toys
- Dismal science
- The great battle
- Mapping the world
- A divine programmer
- Sciences of shadow and light
- Angels and fairies
- New worlds
- Nature decoded
- Endings
- A new horizon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [412]-428) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780767930482
- 0767930487
- OCLC:
- 647214394
- Publisher Number:
- 99942536879
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