LEADER 02766nam 2200481 450 001 9910483551603321 005 20211009012707.0 010 $a3-030-62333-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-62333-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000011786686 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-62333-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6511354 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6511354 035 $a(OCoLC)1241452455 035 $a(PPN)254725244 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011786686 100 $a20211009d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScience in London $ea guide to memorials /$fIstvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (XVI, 281 p. 369 illus., 263 illus. in color.) 311 $a3-030-62332-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Why London is Special -- Chapter 2 Explorers -- Chapter 3 Scientists: Physicists, Chemists, Naturalists -- Chapter 4 Medicine -- Chapter 5 Inventors and Technologists -- Subject Index -- Name Index -- Index of Artists and Architects. 330 $aThis book introduces the reader to the statues, busts, and memorial plaques of scientists, explorers, medicine men and women, and inventors found in the bustling capital of the United Kingdom, London. The former capital of the British Empire, London remains a world center of trade, navigation, finance and many more. It is also a hub of science, the seat of the Royal Society, Royal Institution, Science Museum, British Museum, Natural History Museum, and of great institutions of higher education. The historical figures depicted in these memorials are responsible for creating great institutions, milestone discoveries, contributions to the scientific and technological revolutions, fighting against epidemics, advancing medicine, and contributing to the progress seen during the past four hundred years. This is a guidebook for the visitor and the Londoner alike. It presents memorials that everybody is familiar with and others that the authors discovered during their years of painstaking research. The 750 images and the text, interlarded with anecdotes, is both informative and entertaining. 606 $aScience$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a509.42 700 $aHargittai$b Istva?n$021292 702 $aHargittai$b Magdolna 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483551603321 996 $aScience in London$91894631 997 $aUNINA