The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science by Susannah Gibson

The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science

Susannah Gibson

399 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows ...

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