Echoes of Ingen Housz: The Long Lost Story of the Genius who Rescued the Habsburgs from Smallpox and Became the Father of Photosynthesis

Norman Beale, Elaine Beale

Hobnob Press, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 632 pages

Biography of Jan Ingen Housz (1730-1799), brilliant but almost forgotten Dutch scientist, who discovered photosynthesis, pioneered inoculation, and associated with the most distinguished thinkers and philosophers of the European enlightenment, in Britain, Austria and Holland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Echoes of Ingen Housz: The Long Lost Story of the Genius who Rescued the Habsburgs from Smallpox and Became the Father of Photosynthesis
• Authors: Norman Beale, Elaine Beale
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Hobnob Press, 2011
• ISBN: 190697814X, 9781906978143
• Length: 632 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Science / History