Adam W từ Meşeköy/Kırşehir, Turkey

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05/02/2024

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2020-01-18 04:30

Học Tốt Hoá Học 8 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thái Huynh Nga

‘Science is truly a relay race, with each discovery handed on to the next generation.’ Richard Holmes dates the period of Romantic science as extending (at least symbolically) between two celebrated voyages of exploration: Captain Cook’s expedition around the world aboard the Endeavour which began in 1768, and Charles Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos Islands aboard the Beagle, which began in 1831. While this is a group biography, covering a number of different scientists at work during this period, the lives and discoveries of three men are central. First is Joseph Banks (1743-1820) who, as a young botanist, was on board the Endeavour when she reached Tahiti in 1769. Banks features throughout much of the book: he was President of the Royal Society for over 40 years from 1778. The other two central figures are William Herschel (1738-1822) and Humphry Davy (1778-1829). These men were stars of what Coleridge called the ‘second scientific revolution’ in his Philosophical Lectures of 1819. Richard Holmes considers that this second revolution was primarily inspired by a series of breakthroughs in astronomy and chemistry. ‘The notion of an infinite, mysterious Nature, waiting to be discovered or seduced into revealing all her secrets, was widely held.’ We follow a number of different journeys in this book: Banks, and the ‘ambiguous paradise’ of Tahiti. William Herschel’s ambition was to construct a reflector telescope, an instrument that ‘might plunge deep down into the sky and explore it like an unplumbed ocean of stars.’ Hershel’s work, together with that of his sister Caroline – herself an astronomer – is covered in detail here. Humphry Davy writes of his exploration of nitrous oxide: ‘By degrees as the pleasurable sensations increased, I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid visible images rapidly passed through my mind and were connected with words in such a manner as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas.’ But it is the detail of Humphry Davy’s invention of the miner’s safety lamp that focussed my attention. Even more than the fact that the best mould for making a metal lens for a telescope involved pounded horse-dung. Read, too, about the first balloonists, who went soaring from the earth in the 1780s. They learned far more about the earth than they expected, in their search for knowledge of the skies. And, there is also a chapter about Mungo Park’s (1771-1806) expeditions in Africa. I had not previously heard of him. T he journeys are emotional, imaginative and intellectual as well as physical. There’s a thought-provoking chapter entitled ‘Dr Frankenstein and the Soul’, and consider the ‘Vitalism’ debate. We now know that galvanic and electrical energy cannot create life from inert matter, but what imaginary monsters have been created as a consequence? I thoroughly enjoyed this book: discovered some new learning of my own as well as finding a new context for some previously acquired knowledge. In 1833, William Whewell coined the word ‘scientist’. Perhaps coining this term, even though it wasn’t widely adopted until some years later, really defines the end of the period of Romantic science. Jennifer Cameron-Smith

2020-01-18 09:30

Tập Tô Màu: Xe Hơi Hoạt Hình Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I learned from this book that don't trust to the people that you just met like a 2 days or last week, and if i am Nancy i will not trust Collin i will like to know first about him like where he live, where's school he is going, how old is he, where's he's mother and father or if he have a relatives and after that if i already know about him the second thing that i will know about him is attitude like for example he is a killer, he is a one of the thieves in the Massachusetts or i will ask he's friend if he is a nice person,kind humble or a smart guy. I really learned about this book is if you saw something he put in your drink just catch him in a action that you saw him and if he will know that your there watching him that he putting some something in your drink he will know that you watching him an then he will not do it or just pretend that you drink it and after you drink it you just spit it and say that you will go in the bathroom to spit it in there and pretend that you feel that you feel dizzy and pretend that you past out and if he bring you in your mother room or in his room just pretend that you still sleeping and if he started to kiss you in your lips into your neck catch him and say that you just pretending that you past out and say that you just want to know if he is a rapist or a nice person. I really have learned about this book. I really love this story i feel sorry for her because she died it is really sad story.

Người đọc Adam W từ Meşeköy/Kırşehir, Turkey

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.