The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution
John Gribbin
352 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1585678317
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Language: English
Publish: April 19, 2007
BiographyBiography MemoirHistoryHistory Of ScienceNonfictionPhysicsScience
Charts the efforts of a group of “natural philosophers” in seventeenth-century England who were to become the founding fathers of the Royal Society, placing their collaborations against a backdrop of period civil war, superstition, and ignorance while discussing the specific contributions of such figures as Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton.