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Scientific Lives

John Aubrey

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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein

Beschreibung

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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Inigo Jones, quirky, scientists, amusing, informative, architects, Edmund Halley, explorers, Wenceslaus Hollar, Brief Lives, John Aubrey, Christopher Wren, portrait., men of innovation, inventive age, astronomer, 17th-century biography, mapmaker