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

\ Enchanting To The Point Of Escapism – Simon Ings Spectator\ Hugh Aldersey-Williams Rescues His Subject From Newton\ S Shadow Where He Was Been Unjustly Confined For Over Three Hundred Years Literary Reviewfilled With Incident Discovery And Revelation Dutch Light Is A Vivid Account Christiaan Huygens’s Remarkable Life Career But It Also Nothing Less Than Story Birth Modern Science As We Know Europe’s Greatest Scientist During Latter Half Seventeenth Century Huygens True Polymath Towering Figure In Fields Astronomy Optics Mechanics Mathematics Many Innovations Methodology Timekeeping Remain Use This Day Among Achievements Developed Theory Travelling Wave Invented Mechanism Pendulum Clock Discovered Rings Saturn Via Telescope That Had Man Fashion Culture Came 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 Builds Compelling Case Reclaim Margins History Acknowledge Him One Our Most Important Influential Σελίδες: 560 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0329 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm