MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
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03096cam a2200433 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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19074073 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20241112180013.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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151214s2016 enka b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2015463770 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781408705964 (paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1408705966 (paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780349405452 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
034940545X (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
e-fr--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
Q127.F8 |
| Item number |
J66 2016 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
509.44 JON |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Edition number |
0 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Jones, Steve, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1944- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
No need for geniuses : |
| Remainder of title |
revolutionary science in the Age of the Guillotine / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Steve Jones. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Revolutionary science in the age of the Guillotine |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Little, Brown, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2016. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxx, 353 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| Source |
rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research on crystals and the spread of animal disease. After it, Paris's first mayor was an astronomer, the general who fought off invaders was a mathematician while Marat, a major figure in the Terror, saw himself as a leading physicist. Paris in the century around 1789 saw the first lightning conductor, the first flight, the first estimate of the speed of light and the invention of the tin can and the stethoscope. The metre replaced the yard and the theory of evolution came into being. The city was saturated in science and many of its monuments still are. The Eiffel Tower, built to celebrate the Revolution's centennial, saw the world's first wind-tunnel and first radio message, and first observation of cosmic rays. Perhaps the greatest Revolutionary scientist of all, Antoine Lavoisier, founded modern chemistry and physiology, transformed French farming, and much improved gunpowder manufacture. His political activities brought him a fortune, but in the end led to his execution. The judge who sentenced him - and many other researchers - claimed that 'the Revolution has no need for geniuses'. In this enthralling and timely book Steve Jones shows how wrong this was and takes a sideways look at Paris, its history, and its science, to give a dazzling new insight into the City of Light -- |
| Assigning source |
Source other than Library of Congress. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1743-1794. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Science |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
18th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Scientists |
| Geographic subdivision |
France. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
France |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Revolution, 1789-1799. |
| 887 ## - NON-MARC INFORMATION FIELD |
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| Source of data |
CamTech Library |
| 906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) |
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7 |
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cbc |
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origres |
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3 |
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ncip |
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20 |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Suppress in OPAC |
No |
