(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723003)
Joseph Harris, elder brother of the methodist preacher Howell Harris, made important contributions to the sciences and public life of Great Britain in the eighteenth century. A protégé of Edmond Halley and an apprentice to globe and mapmakers, Harri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837720095)
Synthesizes Welsh history of science during the long eighteenth century.‘ World of New Ideas: 1650–1820 is a series of two volumes revealing the often-forgotten contributions made by Wel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837721238)
The life and career of forgotten Welsh veterinary surgeon, medic and adventurer? Griffith Evans, who discovered that blood parasites cause disease and met Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. In 1880, Welsh army veterinary surgeon Gri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, ISBN-13: 9781837720316)
Dyma gyfrol syn croniclo bywyd a gwaith Griffith Davies (17881855), oi blentyndod tlawd yn ardal chwareli Arfon iw waith fel sefydlydd ysgolion mathemateg yn Llundain cyn gosod sylfaen ir proffesiwn actiwari. Tri mis yn unig o addysg ffurfiol a dder...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786837820)
A critical biography of an influential seventeenth-century Welsh intellectual. Edward Lhwyd, an illegitimate son of a father ruined by the English Civil War, made his own way in the world, finally laying the foundation for modern Cel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786836182)
To meet William Morgan is to encounter the eighteenth-century world of finance, science and politics. Born in Bridgend in 1750, he claimed Welsh heritage, but his influence went far beyond national borders and the legacy of his work continues to shap...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786835710)
This book presents the life and work of one of Wales&;s most eminent scientists, Evan James Williams (1903&;45). Williams&;s background was humble: born in rural Cardiganshire, he made his way in the academic world by dint of a powerful i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786833594)
Nuclear weapons pose very difficult ethical, scientific, engineering, and industrial problems. Given the continuing contemporary debate about the utility or otherwise of nuclear weapons, it is instructive to look back at the evolution of the Bri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786830722)
Cyfrol syn cyflwyno hanes y ffisegydd Evan James Williams, un or gwyddonwyr mwyaf galluog a welodd Cymru erioed. Bun gweithio gyda ffisegwyr byd-enwog, rhai yn enillwyr gwobr Nobel, ac ymysg ei lwyddiannau chwaraeodd ran allweddol yn narganfyddiad...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786830043)
William Robert Grove (1811–1896) was a giant of science in the nineteenth century, but he’s largely been forgotten today. A pioneer in the harnessing of electrical energy, he invented an early battery known as the Grove Voltaic Cell, developed o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jan-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781786830203)
William Robert Grove (1811–1896) was a giant of science in the nineteenth century, but he’s largely been forgotten today. A pioneer in the harnessing of electrical energy, he invented an early battery known as the Grove Voltaic Cell, developed o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781783168293)
Robert Recorde was an important sixteenth-century Welsh physician and mathematician and one of the most enigmatic figures of Tudor England. This book presents a richly detailed and fully rounded picture of Recorde as an academic, theologian, ast...Loe edasi...
