Author: Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
Humphry Davy: Life Beyond the Lamp
Author: Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Born in Penzance in 1778, Humphry Davy's scientific reputation grew with his pioneering discoveries of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), sodium, calcium and the invention of the miners' Davy lamp.
Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, Bart., Late President of the Royal Society, Etc
Author: Sir Humphry Davy
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Young Humphry Davy
Author: June Z. Fullmer
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Humphry Davy's contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy's death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his association of electrical properties & chemical behavior coupled with his fame as a lecturer, made him a popular cultural hero. Others saw him as the man who had made agriculture "scientific." Davy's refusal to profit financially from his invention of the miners' safety lamp endeared him to those humanitarians who idealized scientists as members of an altruistic brotherhood. Here is a readable, thoroughly researched biography of Davy's early life. Illus.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871692375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Humphry Davy's contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy's death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his association of electrical properties & chemical behavior coupled with his fame as a lecturer, made him a popular cultural hero. Others saw him as the man who had made agriculture "scientific." Davy's refusal to profit financially from his invention of the miners' safety lamp endeared him to those humanitarians who idealized scientists as members of an altruistic brotherhood. Here is a readable, thoroughly researched biography of Davy's early life. Illus.
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 870
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The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 874
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Languages : en
Pages : 874
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The Gentleman's Magazine
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Saturday Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Languages : en
Pages : 860
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