The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science

ISBN-13: 9780198833376 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 400 str.

Department of History and Phil Susannah (Affiliated scholar

Recenzje

This is a bicentennial history of which the Society can be proud.

O autorze

Dr Susannah Gibson is an Affiliated Scholar of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from Cambridge on the history of the life sciences of the eighteenth century, a master's degree in the history of nineteenth-century science, and a bachelor's degree in experimental physics. She is the author of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order (OUP, 2015), which was well reviewed in The Telegraph, The TLS, and The Independent, amongst other publications. She was formerly Manager of the Cambridge Literary Festival, and remains interested in both introducing new audiences to the history of science, and in bridging the gap between academic and popular writing.