Author: Holmes, Richard

Price: $6.87

Category:Professional & Academic Biographies
Publication Date:2009-07-14T00:00:01Z
Pages:576
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:0375422226
ISBN:13:9780375422225
The winner of the Somerset Maugham Award presents the earliest ideas of the explorers of “dynamic science,” including William Herschel and his sister, Caroline, who changed the public's ideas about stars, and Humphry Davy, who invented the miners' lamp.