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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes.

Holmes, Richard, 1945- (Author).

Summary:

"The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781400031870
  • ISBN: 1400031877
  • Physical Description: xxi, 552 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st Vintage Books edition
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-525) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Herschel, William, 1738-1822.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848.
Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778-1829.
Science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Discoveries in science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Science > Great Britain > History.

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