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Pure Intelligence

The Life of William Hyde Wollaston

Автор: Melvyn C. Usselman

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

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William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number o...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Melvyn C. Usselman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2015

страници

424

EAN

9780226245737

ISBN

022624573X

Enbook ID

09231821

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

756

Размери

164 x 239 x 37

Пълно описание

William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the physiology of binocular vision, among others. Along with his colleagues Humphry Davy and Thomas Young, he was widely recognized during his life as one of Britain's leading scientific practitioners in the first part of the nineteenth century, and the deaths of all three within a six-month span, between 1828 and 1829, were seen by many as the end of a glorious period of British scientific supremacy. Unlike Davy and Young, however, Wollaston was not the subject of a contemporary biography, and his many impressive achievements have fallen into obscurity as a result. Pure Intelligence is the first book - length study of Wollaston, his science, and the environment in which he thrived. Drawing on previously unstudied laboratory records as well as historical reconstructions of chemical experiments and discoveries, and written in a highly accessible style, Pure Intelligence will help to reinstate Wollaston in the history of science and the pantheon of its great innovators.