The experimental self : Humphry Davy and the making of a man of science /
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest b...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Synthesis (University of Chicago. Press)
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
