description: Led by the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham were a group of eighteenth-century amateur experimenters who met monthly on the Monday night nearest to the full moon. Echoing to the thud of pistons and the wheeze of snorting engines, Jenny Uglow's vivid and swarming group portrait brings to life the inventors, artisans and tycoons who shaped and fired the modern world
language: English
title: The Lunar Men
titlecomplete: The Lunar Men
genres: Historical, History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Technology, History Of Science, 18th Century, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 771
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hessell-Tiltman Prize
publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd