The Sublime Invention
The Sublime Invention

Author: Michael R Lynn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1317324153

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Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.

Cavendish
Cavendish

Author: Christa Jungnickel

Publisher: American Philosophical Society

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0871692201

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"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--Book jacket