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Consolations in Travel

Autor Humphry Davy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2006
Arguably the first celebrity scientist, and the epitome of the 'Romantic' natural philosopher, Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) was a brilliant lecturer whose popularising of science made him famous. He pioneered electrochemistry, befriended the Romantic poets, invented a safety lamp for miners and even wrote on angling (see On the Safety Lamp and Salmonia, also reissued in this series). Described as 'the last words of a dying Plato', Consolations in Travel was published posthumously in 1830. It is an intriguing mixture of poetry, autobiographical sketches, descriptions of dreams, philosophical musings on the afterlife and, in the view of one contemporary review, 'some [matter] which sober reason must dissent as extravagant, and almost bordering on the absurd'. Here, in his final months, Davy turns to the eternal, believing that through science all the questions of the universe could be answered. It remains a poignant and controversial postscript to an illustrious life.
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ISBN-13: 9781847020802
ISBN-10: 1847020801
Pagini: 100
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Echo Library
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

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Preface; 1. The vision; 2. Discussions connected with the vision in the Colosaeum; 3. The unknown; 4. The Proteus, or immortality; 5. The chemical philosopher; 6. Pola, or time.

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Poetry, autobiography and philosophical musings on the universe from the last months of an illustrious scientist's life, published in 1830.