The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Royal National Institute for the Blind, 2009 This biography charts the birth of modern science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the lives of several notable scientists. The author focuses on botanist, Joseph Banks, astronomers William and Caroline Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy. He reveals how great ideas and experiments are born, how intense relationships are broken by research and how religious faith and scientific truth collide. |
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