The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 14 lug 2009 - 576 pagine The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards. |
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Pagina 2
... French man laying swaddled in linen between two of his Mistresses both naked using every possible means to excite desire . But you have never heard of a tantalized wretch who has born his situation with less patience than I have done ...
... French man laying swaddled in linen between two of his Mistresses both naked using every possible means to excite desire . But you have never heard of a tantalized wretch who has born his situation with less patience than I have done ...
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... French expedition under Louis - Antoine de Bougainville had anchored there the following year , and claimed it for France . The French had racily christened Tahiti ' La Nouvelle Cythère , the New Island of Love . Banks's opposite number ...
... French expedition under Louis - Antoine de Bougainville had anchored there the following year , and claimed it for France . The French had racily christened Tahiti ' La Nouvelle Cythère , the New Island of Love . Banks's opposite number ...
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... French had only spent nine days on the island . * Cook was more sceptical , and had every member of his crew ( includ- ing the officers ) examined for venereal infections four weeks before arriv- ing , by their surgeon Jonathan ...
... French had only spent nine days on the island . * Cook was more sceptical , and had every member of his crew ( includ- ing the officers ) examined for venereal infections four weeks before arriv- ing , by their surgeon Jonathan ...
Pagina 7
... French naturalist Georges Cuvier in his obit- uary speech or Éloge to the Institut de France . Emerging late one summer afternoon from a schoolboy swim in the Thames at Eton , the teenage Banks found himself alone on the river , all his ...
... French naturalist Georges Cuvier in his obit- uary speech or Éloge to the Institut de France . Emerging late one summer afternoon from a schoolboy swim in the Thames at Eton , the teenage Banks found himself alone on the river , all his ...
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... French did so . The Admiralty seems to have been unaware of Antarctica . The imperial instructions were not really so secret . Both Banks and Solander knew about them before departure , and even Linnaeus was informed.12 Moreover ...
... French did so . The Admiralty seems to have been unaware of Antarctica . The imperial instructions were not really so secret . Both Banks and Solander knew about them before departure , and even Linnaeus was informed.12 Moreover ...
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Herschel on the Moon | 60 |
Balloonists in Heaven | 125 |
Herschel Among the Stars | 163 |
Mungo Park in Africa | 211 |
Davy on the Gas | 235 |
Dr Frankenstein and the Soul | 305 |
Davy and the Lamp | 337 |
Sorcerer and Apprentice | 381 |
Young Scientists | 435 |
Epilogue | 467 |
Bibliography | 485 |
References | 497 |
Acknowledgements | 526 |
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