Richard Holmes

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of SciencePaperback, 2 March 2010

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Print Length
576 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Vintage
Date Published
2 Mar 2010
ISBN-10
1400031877
ISBN-13
9781400031870

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The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.

When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery--astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical--swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science--an era whose consequences are with us still.

Product Details

Author:
Richard Holmes
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 March 2010
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm
Genre:
18th Century
ISBN-10:
1400031877
ISBN-13:
9781400031870
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
576
Publisher:
Weight:
703.07 gm

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