Humphry Davy : Science and Power

Name: Humphry Davy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521565394
Price: 9700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521565394

by David Knight

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Science Biographies

ISBN-10 0521565391

ISBN-13 9780521565394

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 5th, 1998

Print length 236 Pages

Weight 366 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.10 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military Popular science

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In this entertaining biography David Knight introduces us to Humphry Davy, one of the first professional scientists. Best remembered for his safety lamp, he taught Faraday chemistry, but is also recognized for his poetry and was friends with Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. This book illuminates science and its institutions in Regency Britain.

In this illuminating and entertaining biography David Knight draws upon Humphry Davy's poetry, notebooks, and informal writings to introduce us to one of the first professional scientists. Davy is best remembered for his work on laughing gas, for the arc lamp, for isolating sodium and potassium, for his theory that chemical affinity is electrical, and, of course, for his safety lamp. His lectures on science made the fortunes of the Royal Institution in London, and he taught chemistry to the young Faraday. He is also recognized for his poetry and was the friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. By investigating Davy's life Knight shows what it was like to be a creative scientist in Regency Britain, demonstrating the development of science and its institutions during this crucial period in history.

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