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The Cautionary Scientists

Priestley, Lavoisier, and the founding of modern chemistry

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Kiadó: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Kiadás helye: New York
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Kötés típusa: Vászon
Oldalszám: 256 oldal
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Méret: 22 cm x 15 cm
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The Cautionary Scientists
By KENNETH S. DAVIS
"In our time it has become ali too easy to regard science as a vast impersonal force—a kind of Frankenstein's mon-ster that, escaping human control, has seized us and carries us at terrifying speeds in directions we have not cho-sen toward ends unknown." So Kenneth S. Davis begins his Introduction to The Cautionary Scientists. His book is intended to dispel this concept by returning to an earlier age and il-lustrating through the lives of two eighteenth-century contemporaries, Joseph Priestley of England and Antoine Lavoisier of France, the fathers of modem chemistry, how scientific knowledge is gained and how it can become a constructive weapon in man's never-ending search for en-lightenment.
A dual biography, it humanizes the scientist by showing how these two men were inextricably linked to their times. Both played active roles in society outside the laboratory and both were interesting characters in their own right. Although... Tovább

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The Cautionary Scientists
By KENNETH S. DAVIS
"In our time it has become ali too easy to regard science as a vast impersonal force—a kind of Frankenstein's mon-ster that, escaping human control, has seized us and carries us at terrifying speeds in directions we have not cho-sen toward ends unknown." So Kenneth S. Davis begins his Introduction to The Cautionary Scientists. His book is intended to dispel this concept by returning to an earlier age and il-lustrating through the lives of two eighteenth-century contemporaries, Joseph Priestley of England and Antoine Lavoisier of France, the fathers of modem chemistry, how scientific knowledge is gained and how it can become a constructive weapon in man's never-ending search for en-lightenment.
A dual biography, it humanizes the scientist by showing how these two men were inextricably linked to their times. Both played active roles in society outside the laboratory and both were interesting characters in their own right. Although they met only once, the fate of each was decided by the French Revolution, which was directly responsible for the death of one and for driving the other into dis-
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