A World on Fire
Download or Read eBook A World on Fire PDF written by Joe Jackson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Joe Jackson |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2007-02-27 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781440695971 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1440695970 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis A World on Fire by : Joe Jackson
Book excerpt: Like Charles Seife’s Zero and Dava Sobel’s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier—the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine—A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of science in an age of unreason.
