The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
/ Richard Holmes
- 1st U.S. ed
- New York : Pantheon Books , c2008.
- xxi, 552 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-525) and index.
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.
"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.
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Herschel, William, Sir , 1738-1822 Herschel, Caroline Lucretia , 1750-1848 Davy, Humphry, Sir , 1778-1829
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