William Walker’s Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8 accompanies one of the most famous group portraits ever engraved: Watt, Cavendish, Herschel, Dalton, Jenner and their peers gathered in an imaginary room, with a concise memoir for every figure present.
It is the golden generation of British science caught in one frame and annotated. Download the free EPUB and put names to the faces of an age.