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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

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: print
xxi, 552 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2010.
Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

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.