Author: CARPENTER, AUDREY T.
Title: John Theophilus Desaguliers. A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England.
Description: London: Continuum, 2011. 9781441127785. "Desaguliers's personal history could have relegated him to a liminal status but instead he became a key interlocutor of the early Enlightenment and many of its most important English manifestations: Newtonian science, the Royal Society, Freemasonry, Whiggish politics, practical engineering and the most ethereal of mechanical apparatus." (Susan Mitchell Sommers, Prof. of History, Saint Vincent College, US). Pp.xvi/339, 20 black & white illustrations, owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperback, crease to lower rear corner. VG.

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