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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... exploits of Romantic science , not least because it involved a long stay in a beautiful but ambiguous version of Paradise - Otaheite , or the South Pacific island of Tahiti . 1 Joseph Banks in Paradise 1 On 13 April 1769 xxi PROLOGUE.
... exploits of Romantic science , not least because it involved a long stay in a beautiful but ambiguous version of Paradise - Otaheite , or the South Pacific island of Tahiti . 1 Joseph Banks in Paradise 1 On 13 April 1769 xxi PROLOGUE.
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... Tahiti , 17 degrees South , 149 degrees West . He had been told that this was the location of Paradise : a wonderful idea , although he did not quite believe it . Banks was twenty - six years old , tall and well - built , with an ...
... Tahiti , 17 degrees South , 149 degrees West . He had been told that this was the location of Paradise : a wonderful idea , although he did not quite believe it . Banks was twenty - six years old , tall and well - built , with an ...
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... Tahiti lies roughly east - west just below the 17th parallel , one of the largest of what are now the Society Islands , roughly halfway between Peru and Australia . It is shaped not unlike a figure of eight , some 120 miles ( '40 ...
... Tahiti lies roughly east - west just below the 17th parallel , one of the largest of what are now the Society Islands , roughly halfway between Peru and Australia . It is shaped not unlike a figure of eight , some 120 miles ( '40 ...
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... Tahiti for the first time in April 1768 became one of the most celebrated passages in all French romantic travel ... Tahiti ' ) . This thieving proved to be completely customary in Tahiti , 4 THE AGE OF WONDER.
... Tahiti for the first time in April 1768 became one of the most celebrated passages in all French romantic travel ... Tahiti ' ) . This thieving proved to be completely customary in Tahiti , 4 THE AGE OF WONDER.
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... Tahiti , and led to many painful misunderstandings on both sides . The first occurred the following day , when a Tahitian quite openly made off with a marine's musket , and was immediately shot dead by a punctilious guard . Banks ...
... Tahiti , and led to many painful misunderstandings on both sides . The first occurred the following day , when a Tahitian quite openly made off with a marine's musket , and was immediately shot dead by a punctilious guard . Banks ...
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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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