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SCIENTIFIC LIVES

by John Aubrey

  

€ 9.51  Save €0.48 (RRP €9.99)

ISBN: 9781843911692

This new selection from Brief Lives, John Aubrey's enormous work of seventeenth-century biography, brings together his writings on contemporary scientists, explorers and men of innovation, including astronomer Edmund Halley, celebrated mapmaker Wenceslaus Hollar and the explorer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh.

Scientific Lives offers a portrait by turns witty, serious, droll, of the notable figures of Aubrey's day. Quirk, amusing and informative, Aubrey's writing is the epitome of an exciting and inventive age.

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Date of Publication: 15/05/2008

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