London Lights: The Minds That Moved The City That Shook The World, 1805-51
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the first half of the nineteenth century, London blazed as the intellectual and creative capital of the world — and London Lights chronicles the extraordinary constellation of artists, scientists, and thinkers whose interconnected lives ignited a revolution in human understanding. James Hamilton draws us into a vibrant, turbulent city where J.M.W. Turner crossed paths with Michael Faraday, where the boundaries between art and science dissolved in the smoky air of lecture halls and studio garrets, and where the energy of a rapidly industrialising metropolis fuelled some of the most daring minds in history. Hamilton, a acclaimed biographer of Turner and Faraday, brings his characteristic precision and warmth to this sweeping group portrait of an age, illustrating how friendship, rivalry, and shared curiosity bound together a generation that quite literally changed the world. Written with the authority of deep archival research and the narrative drive of a skilled storyteller, London Lights presents a city that is as much a character as the luminaries who inhabited it — leaving the reader to wonder whether such a convergence of genius could ever be possible again.
Author: James Hamilton
Format: Hardback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the first half of the nineteenth century, London blazed as the intellectual and creative capital of the world — and London Lights chronicles the extraordinary constellation of artists, scientists, and thinkers whose interconnected lives ignited a revolution in human understanding. James Hamilton draws us into a vibrant, turbulent city where J.M.W. Turner crossed paths with Michael Faraday, where the boundaries between art and science dissolved in the smoky air of lecture halls and studio garrets, and where the energy of a rapidly industrialising metropolis fuelled some of the most daring minds in history. Hamilton, a acclaimed biographer of Turner and Faraday, brings his characteristic precision and warmth to this sweeping group portrait of an age, illustrating how friendship, rivalry, and shared curiosity bound together a generation that quite literally changed the world. Written with the authority of deep archival research and the narrative drive of a skilled storyteller, London Lights presents a city that is as much a character as the luminaries who inhabited it — leaving the reader to wonder whether such a convergence of genius could ever be possible again.