Manjit Kumar

Fellowship of Rivals

The Story of the Minds who Ignited the First Modern Scientific Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

At the beginning of 1672, when the 29-year-old Isaac Newton, a little-known Cambridge professor of mathematics, introduced himself to the fellows of the Royal Society in London, Robert Hooke was 37, Gottfried von Leibniz 25, Christopher Wren 39, Robert Boyle 44, Christiaan Huygens 42, John Flamsteed 25 and Edmond Halley just 15. Soon, this group of thinkers had described the nature of sound, calculated the diameter of the Earth to within a few yards, and measured the speed of light. They had tracked the orbits of the planets and comets by telescope, and identified moons around Saturn and Jupiter. They had discovered cells and a world of tiny organisms too small to see with the naked eye. They had formulated the laws of gravity and the calculus. No such small group of individuals had ever contributed so much before; between them, they produced an explosion of knowledge unrivalled in the history of western civilisation. Thrillingly told and based on a decade of research, Fellowship of Rivals is their extraordinary story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: Juni 2027
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526620675
• ISBN-10: 1526620677
• Artikelnr.: 67360942

Autorenporträt

Manjit Kumar is the author of Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2009. He has degrees in physics and philosophy and writes and reviews for various publications including the New Statesman, The Times, Financial Times, Guardian and the Literary Review. He lives in London.