Looks at the scientists and inventors to be found upon the walls of the National Portrait Gallery, and the often extraordinary connections between them. Relationships familial, intellectual, amicable and implacable are unearthed, as are the roles played by coincidence and accident in the great scientific breakthroughs. Packed with detail and anecdote, this guide is illustrated in colour throughout, and includes such major figures as Samuel Pepys and Christopher Wren, William Harvey and Marie Stopes, Richard Arkwright and James Bessemer.
- ISBN10 1855142910
- ISBN13 9781855142916
- Publish Date 24 November 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 November 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint National Portrait Gallery Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English