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No Need for Geniuses - Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine (Paperback)
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No Need for Geniuses - Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine (Paperback)
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Loot Price R288
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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of
science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics,
chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an
upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an
astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before
the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal
disease. After it, Paris's first mayor was an astronomer, the
general who fought off invaders was a mathematician while Marat, a
major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist.
Paris in the century around 1789 saw the first lightning conductor,
the first flight, the first estimate of the speed of light and the
invention of the tin can and the stethoscope. The metre replaced
the yard and the theory of evolution came into being. The city was
saturated in science and many of its monuments still are. The
Eiffel Tower, built to celebrate the Revolution's centennial, saw
the world's first wind-tunnel and first radio message, and first
observation of cosmic rays. Perhaps the greatest Revolutionary
scientist of all, Antoine Lavoisier, founded modern chemistry and
physiology, transformed French farming, and much improved gunpowder
manufacture. His political activities brought him a fortune, but in
the end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him - and
many other researchers - claimed that 'the Revolution has no need
for geniuses'. In this enthralling and timely book Steve Jones
shows how wrong this was and takes a sideways look at Paris, its
history, and its science, to give a dazzling new insight into the
City of Light.
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