Author: Sir Humphry DavyPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Practical Hints on the Application of Wire-gauze to Lamps
Author: Sir Humphry DavyPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The Mercurial Chemist
Author: Anne TreneerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042967970X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
First published in 1963. Humphry Davy, knighted by the Prince Regent in 1812 for his contributions to science, and later created baronet for his invention of the miners’ safety lamp, was among the foremost European chemists in the early nineteenth century. Anne Treneer tells in full the story of Humphry Davy’s life. From letters, journals and memoirs of the time, Davy and his contemporaries come to life. This title will be of great interest to scientists and historians.
Humphry Davy
Author: David KnightPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521565394
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
An entertaining, accessible biography of Humphry Davy, professional scientist, inventor, and poet.
The Experimental Self
Author: Jan GolinskiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636884X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
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 background, Davy was propelled by his scientific accomplishments to a knighthood and the presidency of the Royal Society. An enigmatic figure to his contemporaries, Davy has continued to elude the efforts of biographers to classify him: poet, friend to Coleridge and Wordsworth, author of travel narratives and a book on fishing, chemist and inventor of the miners’ safety lamp. What are we to make of such a man? In The Experimental Self, Golinski argues that Davy’s life is best understood as a prolonged process of self-experimentation. He follows Davy from his youthful enthusiasm for physiological experiment through his self-fashioning as a man of science in a period when the path to a scientific career was not as well-trodden as it is today. What emerges is a portrait of Davy as a creative fashioner of his own identity through a lifelong series of experiments in selfhood.
Historic Inventions
Author: Rupert Sargent HollandPublisher:
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Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide
Author: Sir Humphry DavyPublisher:
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Category : Nitrous oxide
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The Life of Sir Humphry Davy
Author: John Ayrton ParisPublisher:
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
Author: Sir Humphry DavyPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Consolations in Travel Or, The Last Days of a Philosopher
Author: DavyUnderground Life, Or, Mines and Miners
Author: Louis SimoninPublisher:
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Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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