Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 625 g
Its Founder and Its First Professors
Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 625 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - History
ISBN: 978-1-108-03770-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University College, London, Henry Bence Jones (1814-73) was a distinguished physician and chemist, as well as a chronicler of his colleagues' accomplishments. Well-known and popular in Victorian London, he was a fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, and counted Florence Nightingale among his friends. Written during his term as secretary to the Royal Institution, this account of the organisation's foundation and early members reflects his admiration for his professional forebears. Published in 1871, a year after his two-volume biography of Faraday (also reissued in this series), his account covers the lives of Count Rumford, Thomas Young, Humphry Davy and the troubled President Thomas Garnett. Incorporating a substantial appendix containing letters and papers pertaining to the Institution, this history provides a glimpse into the early years of one of Britain's most important and learned scientific organisations.
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Preface; 1. The life of Count Rumford before the foundation of the Institution; 2. His life after the foundation of the Institution; 3. The early history of the Institution, 1790-1800, with the life of Professor Garnett, 1766-1802; 4. The progress of the Institution to the resignation of Professor Young, 1801-3, with the life of Dr. Thomas Young, 1773-1829; 5. The further progress of the Institution to the time of Faraday, 1804-14; 6. The life of Sir Humphry Davy, 1788-1829; Appendix: 1. Original papers regarding the American war; 2. Original letters from Dr. Thomas Young; 3. Income and expenditure of the Royal Institution to 1814; Index.
