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Scientific Lives [EPUB ebook]

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This new selection from John Aubrey’s enormous work of 17th-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.

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Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. She teaches history and politics at Cambridge University, where she is a Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 114 ● ISBN 9781843913368 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Publisher Hesperus Press Ltd. ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2025 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 10111847 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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