# The Science of James Smithson

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- Book: [The Science of James Smithson](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-turner/the-science-of-james-smithson) ([The Science of James Smithson.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-turner/the-science-of-james-smithson.md))
- Authors: [Steven Turner](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-turner)
- Publisher: Smithsonian Books
- ISBN: 978-15-8834-690-2
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2020-11-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

" A quirky, oddly touching book that allows us to step, for a few moments, inside the world of a practicing Enlightenment scientist, to sit beside him as he fans the flames of a candle with his little blowpipe,...