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May 15, 2006 · The book provides a comprehensive review of the 19th century, exploring its successes and failures. The author takes the reader on a journey through the century, discussing various topics such as science, technology, politics, social issues, and cultural changes.
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- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Alfred Russel Wallace
The wonderful century: its successes and failures ... Science, Nineteenth century Publisher Farnborough, Gregg Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
The book surveys technological inventions such as the railway, the telegraph and telephone, as well as photography. But it also analyses the century's 'failures', and discusses the issues of poverty, greed and militarism.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- 2006
Mar 9, 2008 · The wonderful century : its successes and its failures ... The wonderful century : its successes and its failures by Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913. Publication date
The Wonderful Century, originally published in 1898, is a unique book, offering a retrospective of the grand scope of the 19th century. British biologist & explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) discusses what he considers the successes of the last century, including advances made in modes of travel, mechanization, photography, analyses of light, physics, the study of dust, chemistry ...
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- Alfred Russel Wallace
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The wonderful century; its successes and its failures. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. and New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. and Toronto: George N. Morang. REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed (double key) by AEL Data; corrections by John van Wyhe. RN1. NOTE: Images from Internet Archive.
Nov 17, 2011 · The Wonderful Century: Its Successes and Its Failures. The British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for working in parallel with Darwin on evolution and natural selection. A social reformer and a prolific writer, he criticised the ...
