Author: UGLOW, JENNY
Title: The Lunar Men : The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810
Description: London, Faber & Faber. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0571196470) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight rubbing to upper edge. 588pp. An account of the formation and activities of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, founded by a group of amateur experimenters in the 1760s, mostly from poor families but young and with boundless optimism. Over the next eighty years. their names would become famous in science, engineering, art and business. The author uncovers the political passions, love affairs, friendships and the love of knowledge and power that drove these extraordinary people. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: History, Science, Engineering, Experimenters, 18th Century Science / Engineering / Maths 0571196470


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