Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with...
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Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and James Clerk Maxwell. The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students, and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history.
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William Gilbert
William Harvey
Isaac Newton: Creator of the Cambridge scientific tradition
William Whewell: A Cambridge historian and philosopher of science
Adam Sedgwick: A confident mind in turmoil
Charles Babbage: Science and reform
Charles Darwin
Stokes and Kelvin, Cambridge and Glasgow, light and heat
James Clerk Maxwell
The duo from Trinity: A-N Whitehead and Bertrand Russell on the foundations of mathematics
Thomson, Rutherford and atomic physics at the Cavendish
Hopkins and biochemistry
Charles Sherrington, E-D Adrian, and Henry Dale: The Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the physiology of the nervous system