Cambridge Scientific Minds

Harman, Peter; Simon Mitton

ISBN 10: 0521781000 / ISBN 13: 9780521781008

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Book has faint wear to some cover corners. Negligible rubbing across covers. Otherwise, book looks and feels as new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cambridge Scientific Minds
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521781000
• ISBN 13: 9780521781008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell. The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history.

About the Authors

Peter Harman is Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University. At Cambridge he lectured in the history of science and was a Research Fellow of Clare Hall. He has written several books published by Cambridge University Press.

Simon Mitton studied physics at the University of Oxford, following which he did a PhD in radio astronomy at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He is the Senior Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. This is his tenth book.