Thomas Garnett: Science, Medicine, Mobility in Britain

by Robert Fox

Thomas Garnett was a man of science and physician whose career took him from rural obscurity in 18th-century Westmorland to metropolitan prominence as the first professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the newly founded Royal Institution in London in 1799. His rise to the summit of British science was far from straightforward, but is brought to life in vivid detail by Robert Fox.

Fox gives an engrossing and moving account of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350239291
• ISBN13: 9781350239296
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"