Inspired amateurs.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Biography.; Scientists -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: Preface, by A. E. Morgan.; title: The shoemaker and his last.; title: Preacher chemist: Joseph Priestley.; title: The count and his beggars: Benjamin Thompson.; title: A musician looks at the stars: William Herschel.; title: Science in a monastery garden:  Gregor Mendel.; title: The stonemason of Cromarty: Hugh Miller.; title: A janitor rises to remark: Anton Leeuwenhoek.; title: A scientist battles poverty: Jean Henri Fabre.; title: From indigo to excavation: Heinrich Schliemann.; title: Banker historian: George Grote.; title: Enlightening the doctor: Stephen Hales.; title: The lens-grinding philosopher: Benedict de Spinoza.; title: Today's amateurs.