· Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid and swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. It echoes the thud of pistons and the wheeze and snort of engines, and brings to life the tradesmen, artisans, and tycoons who shaped and 4/5(1). The Lunar Men certainly were 'a constellation of extraordinary individuals', as Uglow herself concludes in her epilogue to this weighty tome. It was reading widely about Charles 'Origin' Darwin that lead, almost inexorably, to an interest in the Lunar group, with Stott's book Darwin's Barnacle sealing the deal, via the chapter on Charles /5(). · The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future, by Jenny Uglow pp, Faber, £ In an early draft of part of The Wealth of Nations, which was discovered and published in Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
Jenny Uglow is author of The Lunar Men: the friends who made the future, published by Faber Faber in , a widely acclaimed book about the lives of these remarkable men. Join the debate Tweets by LunarSoc. The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future by Jenny Uglow Faber £25, pp In the mid-eighteenth century, three men - Erasmus Darwin, a doctor, Matthew Boulton, a Birmingham metal-goods. THE LUNAR MEN. Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. By Jenny Uglow. Farrar Straus Giroux. pp. $30 "In the time of the Lunar men science and art were not separated: you could be an.
Jenny Uglow tells the stories of many men in The Lunar Society. The core is a group of five friends -- Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt -- who established a Lunar Society that met monthly (on or close to the full moon, to better find their way back home again afterwards). Jenny Uglow's The Lunar Men is a vivid and swarming group portrait that brings to life the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge (and power) that drove these extraordinary men. Jenny Uglow. · Rating details · ratings · 66 reviews. In the late s, five gifted inventors and amateur scholars in Birmingham, England, came together for what one of them, Erasmus Darwin, called "a little philosophical laughing." They also helped kick-start the industrial revolution, as Jenny Uglow relates in the lively The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World.
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