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The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution
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Author
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John Gribbin.
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Publisher
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Overlook
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paperback
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8
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ISBN
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9781590200261
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Pages/Publication Date
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336/2005
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Daedalus Item Code
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22288
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Description
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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire—a world dominated by superstition and ignorance. But then a series of meetings of "natural philosophers" in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment. The author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, The Birth of Time, and The Origins of the Future offers a gripping, colorful account of this unparalleled time of discovery through portraits of the founding fathers of modern Western science, Britain's Royal Society. "The master of popular science writing ... [John] Gribbin reveals the complex relationships between science and the politics of the day to show us how si much was achieved against all the odds."—Scotsman
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