text The philosophical breakfast club : four remarkable friends who transformed science and changed the world
- Summary
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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 -- N... Read more
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- Description
- 439 p., [8]p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
- Publisher
- Broadway Books 2011
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