The Lunar Men:The Friends who made the Future 1730-1810
by Uglow, Jenny
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571196470
- ISBN 13
- 9780571196470
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Faber and Faber, 2002 8vo (24 cm), XX, 588 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the center of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toymaker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor, and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes to the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern age." (from the publisher's description)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007248
- Title
- The Lunar Men:The Friends who made the Future 1730-1810
- Author
- Uglow, Jenny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0571196470
- ISBN 13
- 9780571196470
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2002
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Science;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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