It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine by Steve Jones
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The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin’s Ghost. 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. The city was saturated in scientists; 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,...
Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine by Steve Jones is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine aloud.
Revolutionary Science: Transformation and Turmoil in the Age of the Guillotine is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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