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No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine
Professor Steve Jones
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Description for No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
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 mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the ... Read more
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 mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408705964
SKU
V9781408705964
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About Professor 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.
Reviews for No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine
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
The outcomes are never what anyone could have guessed, and watching Jones unfurl them is spellbinding
Peter Carey
Sunday Times
[An] erudite mixture of science and history . ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
The outcomes are never what anyone could have guessed, and watching Jones unfurl them is spellbinding
Peter Carey
Sunday Times
[An] erudite mixture of science and history . ... Read more