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  Scientific Lives (Hesperus Classics) (Paperback) By (author) John Aubrey, Foreword by Ruth Scurr

  

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  Short Description for Scientific LivesA companion to "Lives of Eminent Men", this selection from "Brief Lives" includes biographical sketches of scientists, architects and other figures of Aubrey's day.
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  • Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
  • Published: 24 June 2011
  • Format: Paperback 112 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering | History Of Science
  • ISBN 13: 9781843911692 ISBN 10: 1843911698
  • Sales rank: 1,252,363

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• 'The honourable Robert Boyle esq., the son of Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, was born at Lismore in the county of Cork. He was nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, where they put the child in a pendulous satchel instead of a cardle, with a slit for the child's head to peep out.' This new selection from John Aubrey's enormous work of seventeenth-century biography, 'Brief Lives', brings together his writings on contemporary scientists, explorers and men of innovation, including astronomer Edmund Halley, celebrated Mapmaker Wenceslaus Hollar and the architects Christopher Wren and Inigo Jones. Simultaneously quirky, amusing and informative, these pieces together provide a fascinating portrait of an exciting and inventive age.