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Discussing chemistry and steam : the minutes of a coffee house philosophical society, 1780-1787
Bok av Trevor H Levere
This book transcribes and comments on the manuscript Minutes of the meetings in a London coffee house of a group of 18th century scientists, natural philosophers, and industrialists who discussed some of the key scientific issues of the day. Their debates offer a rare authentic contemporary account of the scientific and social thinking of their time.