Name: Scientific Lives
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Author: Aubrey, John ; Scurr, Ruth
ISBN: 9781843911692

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Author

John Aubrey

Preface by

Ruth Scurr

Publisher

Hesperus Press

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

124

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 12.4 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN

1843911698

ISBN13

9781843911692

Synopsis "Scientific Lives"

"The honourable Robert Boyle esq., the son of Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, was born at Lismore in the county of Cork. He was nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, where they put the child in a pendulous satchel instead of a cradle, with a slit for the child's head to peep out." This new selection from John Aubrey's enormous work of 17th-century biography, Brief Lives, brings together his writings on contemporary scientists, explorers and men of innovation, including astronomer Edmund Halley, celebrated mapmaker Wenceslaus Hollar, and the architects Christopher Wren and Inigo Jones. Simultaneously quirky, amusing, and informative, these pieces together provide a fascinating portrait of an exciting and inventive age.

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