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

By:

Holmes, Richard, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books , c2008.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: xxi, 552 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:

9780375422225

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

509.41 HOL

LOC classification:

Q127.G4 H65 2008

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.

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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	509.41 HOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011921

Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-525) and index.

"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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