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Excerpt from Six Great Scientists It is always well to keep green the memories of benefactors - and it is Well to remember that Science has a very human side - and so I have tried here to sketch the lives and work of six famous Scientists of the nineteenth century, that century which produced so many outstanding personalities in Art, Literature, Philanthropy, Politics, as well as in Science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.