Humphry Davy - Softcover

Davy Lamont-Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750932317 ISBN 13: 9780750932318

Publisher: The History Press Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Biography of Humphry Davy

About this title

Synopsis:

Yet, as Lamont-Brown shows, Davy was not just a scientific pioneer but a man with wide-ranging interests at the centre of London life. A founder member of the Geological Society and co-founder with Sir Stamford Raffles of London Zoo, Davy was also a poet of some ability, enjoying the respect and lively friendship of Southey, Coleridge, and Wordsworth among others. Eclectic and brilliant, one of his greatest contributions was, however, to communicate science to a wider public; he was a man for his own time and ours.

About the Author:

Raymond Lamont-Brown has been a freelance writer since 1965 and produced over 50 hardback and paperback titles on Scottish subjects, folklore, biography, history and Victorian and Edwardian Scotland. These include Kempeitai: Japan's Dreaded Military Police, and Edward VII's Last Loves: Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser (Nov 98) and John Brown (pb 2002) for Sutton Publishing

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0750932317
• ISBN 13: 9780750932318
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 199