The Fellowship: The Story Of The Royal Society And A Scientific Revolution

by John Gribbin

Subscribe to alerts

Paperback

Free delivery

Out of Stock

Get notified when this item becomes available

Be the first to like this

Learn More

You can use the 'like' button to provide positive feedback on products, reviews and other features on the website. 'Like' is similar to voting and will be used to present the most popular content. Once you have clicked 'like', you cannot 'unlike'. You can only 'like' something once.

Overview
Customer reviews

Related Products

Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi To Descartes

by Craig Martin

Online Price: $79.99

Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics And The Arts

by Mark A. Peterson

Online Price: $38.99

Science And Empire: Knowledge And Networks Of Science Across The British Empire, 1800-1970

by Bennett and Hodge

Leviathan And The Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, And The Experimental Life

by Schaffer , Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer

Online Price: $42.99

Eaten By A Giant Clam: Great Adventures In Natural Science

by Joseph Cummins

Online Price: $27.95

The Fellowship: The Story Of The Royal Society And A Scientific Revolution

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment. John Gribbin's gripping, colourful account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society, culminating with Isaac Newton's revolutionary description of the universe and Edmund Halley's prediction of the return of a comet in 1759. This compelling book shows the triumph not as the work of one isolated genius, but of a Fellowship.