Scientific Lives

by John Aubrey and Ruth Scurr

Book Overview

"The honourable Robert Boyle esq., the son of Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, was born at Lismore in the county of Cork. He was nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, where they put the child in a pendulous satchel instead of a cradle, with a slit for the child's head to peep out." This new selection from John Aubrey's enormous work of 17th-century biography, Brief Lives , brings together his writings on contemporary scientists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843911698
• ISBN13: 9781843911692
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Hesperus Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.6"