Ian Hembrow

Gebundenes Buch

Celsius

A Life and Death by Degrees

Beschreibung

Sweden's Enlightenment genius and his lessons for a world in crisis

Autor

Ian Hembrow is a former visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Since 2016, he has worked regularly in Sweden on two books for the WHO's Uppsala Monitoring Centre, which is how he came across the story of Anders Celsius. He began working on the book in 2020 and traveled to the Arctic Circle to retrace the steps of Celsius's 1736-37 expedition to prove the shape of the Earth. In 2023 he published Ralph Edwards: Rare Events with Springer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781803994611
• ISBN-10: 1803994614
• Artikelnr.: 70291347