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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... Lady Banks , by Joseph Collyer the Younger , after John Russell , c.1790 . © National Portrait Gallery , London Captain James Cook , by John Webber , 1776. © National Portrait Gallery , London William Herschel ( locket ) , c.1760 . With ...
... Lady Banks , by Joseph Collyer the Younger , after John Russell , c.1790 . © National Portrait Gallery , London Captain James Cook , by John Webber , 1776. © National Portrait Gallery , London William Herschel ( locket ) , c.1760 . With ...
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... lady who possessed extraor dinary beauty , and every accomplishment , with a fortune of ten thou- sand pounds . Mr Banks had often seen her , when visiting the rare plants of Lee's , and thought her the fairest among the flowers.'14 In ...
... lady who possessed extraor dinary beauty , and every accomplishment , with a fortune of ten thou- sand pounds . Mr Banks had often seen her , when visiting the rare plants of Lee's , and thought her the fairest among the flowers.'14 In ...
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... Lady , universally loved among the crew , was heard to howl out in the night . The next morning she was found flung across a chair in the cabin , still guarding Banks's writing table , but dead . By the time they reached London on 13 ...
... Lady , universally loved among the crew , was heard to howl out in the night . The next morning she was found flung across a chair in the cabin , still guarding Banks's writing table , but dead . By the time they reached London on 13 ...
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... Lady Mary Coke in August . The story of the waistcoats provided much amusement . ' Mr Morris was excessively drole according to custom ; and said he hoped Mr Banks , who since his return has desired Miss Blosset will excuse his marrying ...
... Lady Mary Coke in August . The story of the waistcoats provided much amusement . ' Mr Morris was excessively drole according to custom ; and said he hoped Mr Banks , who since his return has desired Miss Blosset will excuse his marrying ...
Pagina 42
... lady and the plants ; but she found her lover now preferred a flower , or even a butterfly , to her superior charms . ' For Harriet the three - year wait ended in ' a most mor- tifying disappointment ? 70 But perhaps it was more a ...
... lady and the plants ; but she found her lover now preferred a flower , or even a butterfly , to her superior charms . ' For Harriet the three - year wait ended in ' a most mor- tifying disappointment ? 70 But perhaps it was more a ...
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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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