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This review is from: Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-county Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels (Hardcover)
A wonderful, witty, scholarly, fascinating book about Ireland's little-known scientific history - mostly a history of individuals who made great discoveries. * Copyright: a legal precedent was set in a case involving the young St Colmcille, a famous illuminator who copied a Bible belonging to another man. The judges followed agricultural precedent in their judgment: "To every cow its calf, to every book its copy." The result was a battle when 3,000 died; the upside was that Colmcille went to Iona to found the monastery where the illuminated manuscript the Book of Kells was produced. * Medical syringes: invented by a Dublin doctor, who used it to slide morphine under the skin of an agonised patient. * Millions of other quirky and important inventions in every possible area of life. This is a great book for children as well as for adults, because its style is limpid and friendly - and because it sparks interest in the possibilities of inventiveness. |
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Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-County Exploration of the Mysteries and Marvels of the Ingenious Irish by Mary Mulvihill (Hardcover - December 23, 2003)
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