Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens And The Making Of Science In Europe Hugh Aldersey-Williams Picador Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ At Last – A Scintillating Biography Of Christiaan Huygens Hugh Aldersley-Williams Has Evocatively Illuminated This Brilliant Polymath Who Laid The Foundations Modern European Science Dr Patricia Fara Emeritus Fellow Clare College Cambridge\ Fascinating An Impressive Piece Scholarship I Learned Lot John Gribbin Author Six Impossible Things And In Search Schrödinger\ S Catfilled With Incident Discovery Revelation Dutch Light Is Vivid Account Huygens’s Remarkable Life Career But It Also Nothing Less Than Story Birth As We Know Europe’s Greatest Scientist During Latter Half Seventeenth Century Was True Towering Figure Fields Astronomy Optics Mechanics Mathematics Many His Innovations Methodology Timekeeping Remain Use To Day Among Achievements He Developed Theory Travelling Wave Invented Mechanism For Pendulum Clock Discovered Rings Saturn Via Telescope That Had Man Fashion Culture Came From Family Multi-Talented Individuals Whose Circle Included Not Only Leading Figures Society Artists Philosophers Such Rembrandt Locke Descartes Their Contemporaries Would Become Key Actors Golden Age Time Unprecedented Intellectual Expansion Within Netherlands Set Against Backdrop Worldwide Religious Political Turmoil Febrile Period Defined By Danger Luxury Leisure Curiosity Purpose Tremendous Possibility Following Footsteps Navigates Era While Shuttling Opportunistically Between Countries Scientific Disciplines Aldersey-Williams Builds Compelling Case Reclaim Margins History Acknowledge Him One Our Most Important Influential Σελίδες: 560 Έτος Έκδοσης: 1228 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm