Joyce Chaplin: 4 books
The First Scientific American
Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin-he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. In this authoritative intellectual biography of America's most brilliant and cosmopolitan Founding Father, Joyce Chaplin considers Franklin's scientific work as a career in its own right as well as the...
An Anxious Pursuit
Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In An Anxious Pursuit, Joyce Chaplin examines the impact of the Enlightenment ideas of progress on the lives and minds of American planters in the colonial Lower South. She focuses particularly on the influence of Scottish notions of progress, tracing the extent to which planters in South Carolina,...
Round About the Earth
Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet.
For almost five...
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
Rereading the Principle of Population
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood....