Experimental Blog #62

Comments on "The Philosophical Breakfast Club" - Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World by Laura J Snyder

The author of this book, Laura J Snyder, a professor of philosophy, seems to have a complete understanding of all the scientific developements that occurred during the very scientifically revolutionary 19th century.
In her book Laura Snyder concentrates on the four principal English natural philosophers, later called scientists, William Whewell, John Herschel, Charles Babbage, and Richard Jones. However, the author is very familiar with all the other previous principal natural philosophers; most importantly, Isaac Newton and Francis Bacon, who is credited with redefining scientific study from its ancient Aristotelian origins into modern empirical forms.
Laura Snyder also gives very thorough, synthesizing, and instructive accounts of the works and influences of Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Charles Lyell, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and James Clerk Maxwell; to name only a few of the many others.