CHRISTMAS AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LECTURES BY M FARADAY, J TYNDALL, R S BALL, S P THOMPSON, E R LANKESTER, W H BRAGG, W L BRAGG, R L GREGORY, AND I STEWART by Frank James
Brings together lectures which were delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children.Frank A.J.L. James is Professor in the History of Science at the Royal Institution. He has written on physics and chemistry in the nineteenth century and with Geoffrey Cantor and David Gooding has written the biography Michael Faraday (MacMillan / Humanities Press). He has edited a collection of essays on nineteenth century communications, Semaphores to Short Waves (RSIA) and with J V Field has written Science in Art (BSMS)on pictures in the National Gallery which have a scientific content. Most recently he has edited The Common Purpose of Life: Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ashgate).
Frank James lives in London and is Married with three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789812771094 |
| ISBN 10 | 9812771093 |
| Title | CHRISTMAS AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LECTURES BY M FARADAY, J TYNDALL, R S BALL, S P THOMPSON, E R LANKESTER, W H BRAGG, W L BRAGG, R L GREGORY, AND I STEWART |
| Author | Frank A J L James |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-12-03 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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