Humphry Davy
Subtitle: Science and Power (Cambridge Science Biographies)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521565394
Subjects: Biography: general; Popular science; Scientists; Chemistry (General); Science; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Science/Mathematics; Scientists - General; History; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Science-History; Technology / General
First sentence: Near the end of his life Humphry Davy wrote: Ah! could I recover any thing like that freshness of mind, which I possessed at twenty-five and which, like the dew of the dawning morning, covered all objects and nourished all things that grew, and in which they were more beautiful even than in mid-day sunshine, - what would I not give!