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    Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
    Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
    Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
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    Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

    Written by Elbert Hubbard

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of the subject and their oeuvre.

    In this volume he reflects on the lives of well known scientists. Included are Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Alexander von Humboldt, William Herschel, Charles Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, Carl Linnaeus, Thomas H. Huxley, John Tyndall, Alfred R. Wallace, and John Fiske. (Summary by Lucy Perry and Availle.)

    This is Volume 12 in a series of 14 books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
    Author

    Elbert Hubbard

    Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois. He was a writer, publisher, and artist who was an influential member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His best-known work is the short publication A Message to Garcia.

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