No Need For Geniuses: Revolutionary Science In The Age Of The Guillotine Editor's of Oxford University Press With chapter-ending quizzes

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No Need For Geniuses: Revolutionary Science In The Age Of The Guillotine Editor's of Oxford University Press With chapter-ending quizzesParis at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris's first mayor was an astronomer, the