The age of wonder how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science."
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London
Harper Press
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Joseph Banks in paradise
- Herschel on the moon
- Balloonists in heaven
- Herschel among the stars
- Mungo Park in Africa
- Davy on the gas
- Dr. Frankenstein and the soul
- Davy and the lamp
- Sorcerer and apprentice
- Young scientists