The Lunar Men
Book description
Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their…
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I love this book for its affection for its characters and the colorful details of the world in which they lived.
It is a coruscating read about five curious men (curious in both senses) in eighteenth-century England at the dawn of the first industrial revolution–a revolution that they helped to create.
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