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The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin's Ghost.

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics.

The city was saturated in scientists; many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris's first mayor was an astronomer, the general who fought off invaders was a mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the century around 1789 saw the first lightning conductor, the first flight, the first estimate of the speed of light and the invention of the tin can and the stethoscope. The theory of evolution came into being.

Perhaps the greatest Revolutionary scientist of all, Antoine Lavoisier, founded modern chemistry and physiology, transformed French farming, and much improved gunpowder manufacture. His political activities brought him a fortune, but in the end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him--and many other researchers-- to death claimed that "the Revolution has no need for geniuses."

In this enthralling and dazzling book, acclaimed science writer Steve Jones shows how wrong this was and takes a new look at Paris, its history, and its science, to give the reader dazzling new insight into the City of Light.

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  • Title Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine
  • Author Steve Jones
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Books
  • Publication date 2017-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781681773094 / 1681773090
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799, Paris (France) - History - Revolution,
  • Dewey Decimal Code 509.443

About the author

Steve Jones is professor of genetics at University College London. He is the author of The Darwin Archipelago; Y: The Descent of Man; Darwin's Ghost; Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species; and The Serpent's Promise. Jones is the winner of Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science. He lives in London.

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