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The Life of William Nicholson, 1753-1815 - A Memoir of Enlightenment, Commerce, Politics, Arts and Science (Paperback)
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The Life of William Nicholson, 1753-1815 - A Memoir of Enlightenment, Commerce, Politics, Arts and Science (Paperback)
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A prominent member of a flourishing scientific and literary
community, William Nicholson, author, patent agent and civil
engineer, founded a widely-circulated journal (universally known as
'Nicholson's Journal'), which helped establish Humphry Davy's
reputation. He was the first person to decompose water by
electrolysis and was the inventor of cylindrical printing. Despite
this, little has been written about his colourful life. This
memoir, written by his son in 1868, now published for the first
time, revisits London's rich cultural scene at the end of the
eighteenth century, documenting Nicholson's overlooked part in this
milieu of consilience and revolution. From inventions and
significant contributions to science, to his work in literature and
his friendships with the leading lights of the period, such as Sir
Joseph Banks, Thomas Holcroft and William Godwin (he was invited to
make a phrenological study of the infant Mary Shelley), William
Nicholson's life reads as a microcosm of an Enlightenment making
way for Romanticism. Bringing together Jacobin intrigue and a cast
of familiar characters, it will please historians of the era and
historians of science alike
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