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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 April 2012
    18 October 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139096980
    9781108037709
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139096980
    Dimensions:
    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.56kg, 446 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History, History of Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History, History of Science: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University College, London, Henry Bence Jones (1814–73) was a distinguished physician and chemist, as well as a chronicler of his colleagues' accomplishments. Well-known and popular in Victorian London, he was a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, and counted Florence Nightingale among his friends. Written during his term as secretary to the Royal Institution, this account of the organisation's foundation and early members reflects his admiration for his professional forebears. Published in 1871, a year after his two-volume biography of Faraday (also reissued in this series), his account covers the lives of Count Rumford, Thomas Young, Humphry Davy and the troubled President Thomas Garnett. Incorporating a substantial appendix containing letters and papers pertaining to the Institution, this history provides a glimpse into the early years of one of Britain's most important and learned scientific organisations.

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