Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and completed his doctorate there in the history and philosophy of science. He has published widely on the history of science. Recent publications include Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Books, 2017) and the Oxford Illustrated History of Science.
13 Ebooks von Iwan Rhys Morus
Iwan Rhys Morus: Shocking Bodies
For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani’s discovery of …
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€9.99
Iwan Rhys Morus: Frankenstein’s Children
During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the c …
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€77.99
Iwan Rhys Morus: Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future
'[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures…and the hopeful thrum of an era before world wars.' – Nature Nikola Tesla is on …
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€10.99
Iwan Rhys Morus: Oxford Illustrated History of Science
The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb – and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of sc …
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€26.86
Iwan Morus: William Robert Grove
William Robert Grove is one of the forgotten giants of nineteenth-century science. The improvements in battery technology developed by him helped power the Victorian telegraph; his essay On The Corre …
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€11.99
Iwan Rhys Morus: Oxford Illustrated History of Science
The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb – and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of sc …
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€15.45
Iwan Rhys Morus: Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Science)
The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolution …
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€6.98
Iwan Rhys Morus: How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon
'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism … Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' – DUNCAN BELL, NEW STATESMAN '[How the Victorian …
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€24.00
Iwan Rhys Morus: Oxford History of Science
Histories you can trust.The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from th …
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€12.75
Iwan Rhys Morus: Oxford History of Science
Histories you can trust.The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from th …
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€12.67
Iwan Rhys Morus: Bodies/Machines
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural an …
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€39.29
Peter J. Bowler & Iwan Rhys Morus: Making Modern Science, Second Edition
In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. …
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€48.77
Iwan Rhys Morus: When Physics Became King
As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific revolution, physics struggled at first to achieve le …
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€47.51
