The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810 by Jenny Uglow

The Lunar Men: The Friends who Made the Future, 1730-1810

Jenny Uglow

588 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the Midlands. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world...

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