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How the Victorians took us to the moon : the story of the nineteenth-century innovators who forged the future

Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964-2023
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By the end of the Victorian era, the world had changed irrevocably. The speed of the technological development brought about between 1800 and 1900 was completely unprecedented in human history. And as the Victorians looked to the skies and beyond as the next frontier to be explored and conquered, they were inventing, shaping and moulding the very idea of the future. To get us to this future, the Victorians created a new way of ordering and transforming nature, built on grand designs and the mass-mobilisation of the resources of Empire - and they revolutionised science in the process. In this book, historian of science Iwan Rhys Morus tells the story of how this future was made.

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