Telling Lives in Science
Subtitle: Essays on Scientific Biography
Contributors: Michael Shortland (Editor); Richard Yeo (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780521433235
Subjects: History of science; Scientists; Science/Mathematics; Authorship; Science / History; Scientists--Biography; Biography; History; Science
First sentence: During the last decade an increasing number of high quality biographies of scientists have appeared on the book market - Richard Westfall's Newton study, Never at Rest, William Provine's Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology, Crosbie Smith and Norton Wise's study of Lord Kelvin and Victorian England, David Cassidy's Heisenberg biography, Geoffrey Cantor's study of Faraday, Adrian Desmond and James Moore's Darwin tome, and Frederic Holmes's first volume on Hans Krebs-just to name some of the most admirable works.