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An Entertainment for Angels by Patricia Fara (Lecturer of History and Science and Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge)
22.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Revolutions in Science S. Ser.
An Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men, one observer called electricity, and it proved to be the most significant scientific discovery of the Enlightenment. Lecturers attracted huge audiences who marveled at sparkling fountains, flaming drinks, pirouetting dancers, and electrified boys. Flambo ...Show more
The Discovery of the Germ by John Waller
26.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Revolutions in Science S. Ser.
A gripping insight into twenty years that profoundly changed the way we view disease. From Hippocrates to Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on almost wholly mistaken ideas as to the cause of infectious illness. Bleeding, induced vomiting and mysterious nostrums remained staple remedies. S ...Show more
The Discovery of the Germ by John Waller (Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London)
22.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Revolutions in science
20 incredible years that revolutionised our understanding of disease. Excess bile, blood and phlegm. Inhaling airborne poisons. Overexcited nerves. From Hippocrates to the age of Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on these plausible but almost wholly mistaken ideas of the cause of infectiou ...Show more
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