Description
About the Author
Patricia Fara lectures in the history of science at Cambridge University, where she is a Fellow of Clare College. She is the President of the British Society for the History of Science, and her prize-winning book, Science: A Four Thousand Year History (2009), has been translated into nine languages. In addition to many academic publications, her popular works include Newton: The Making of Genius (2002), An Entertainment for Angels (2002), Sex, Botany and Empire (2003), Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment (2004) and A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (2018). An experienced public lecturer, Patricia Fara appears regularly in TV documentaries and radio programmes such as In our Time. She also contributes articles and reviews to many journals, including History Today, BBC History, New Scientist, Nature and the Times Literary Supplement.
Reviews
Erasmus Darwin [...] subverts the genre, along the way making it the most enjoyable relatively heavy-duty history of science book I've ever read ... this is a wonderful way to make the process of exploring the history of science come alive. * Brian Clegg, Popular Science *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198848547
Author Patricia Fara
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 336g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm * 26mm