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The lunar men : five friends whose curiosity changed the world / Jenny Uglow

By:

Uglow, Jennifer

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2002.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xx, 588 p. : ill. (some col.), 1 map ; 25 cmISBN:

9780374194406

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DDC classification:

609.2 UGL

LOC classification:

T39 .U35 2002

Summary: Uglow paints a group portrait of five of the leading members of England's 18th-century Lunar Society. The richly illustrated volume focuses on the projects and discoveries that resulted from the collaboration of manufacturer Matthew Boulton; physician, poet, and biological theorist Erasmus Darwin; inventor James Watt; potter Josiah Wedgwood; and preacher and chemist Joseph Priestly. Uglow is Honorary Visiting Professor at the U. of Warwick.

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Originally published in 2002 by Faber and Faber, Great Britain as: The lunar men : the friends who made the future.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-558) and index.

Uglow paints a group portrait of five of the leading members of England's 18th-century Lunar Society. The richly illustrated volume focuses on the projects and discoveries that resulted from the collaboration of manufacturer Matthew Boulton; physician, poet, and biological theorist Erasmus Darwin; inventor James Watt; potter Josiah Wedgwood; and preacher and chemist Joseph Priestly. Uglow is Honorary Visiting Professor at the U. of Warwick.

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