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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... Thomas Baldwin , Airopaidia ( 1786 ) . © British Library Board . All Rights Reserved 1137.c.17 The first manned ascent in a hydrogen balloon , Paris , 1 December 1783 . © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library John Jeffries ...
... Thomas Baldwin , Airopaidia ( 1786 ) . © British Library Board . All Rights Reserved 1137.c.17 The first manned ascent in a hydrogen balloon , Paris , 1 December 1783 . © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library John Jeffries ...
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... Thomas Rowlandson , c.1805 . National Portrait Gallery , London Title page of the 1860 edition of Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa ( 1799 ) . A sketch map of the northern part of Africa , by Major John Rennell , 1790 ...
... Thomas Rowlandson , c.1805 . National Portrait Gallery , London Title page of the 1860 edition of Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa ( 1799 ) . A sketch map of the northern part of Africa , by Major John Rennell , 1790 ...
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... of Banks's departure on the high seas , he wrote thoughtfully to their mutual friend Thomas Pennant : ' When I reflect on the youth and affluence of this enterprizing young gentleman I am filled with 12 THE AGE OF WONDER.
... of Banks's departure on the high seas , he wrote thoughtfully to their mutual friend Thomas Pennant : ' When I reflect on the youth and affluence of this enterprizing young gentleman I am filled with 12 THE AGE OF WONDER.
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... Thomas Paine . Beyond that lay the whole question of imperialism and colonialism , that great , tangled Victorian inheritance , loom- ing like a dark stormcloud on the distant horizon . For the time being the bluff innocence Ruminating ...
... Thomas Paine . Beyond that lay the whole question of imperialism and colonialism , that great , tangled Victorian inheritance , loom- ing like a dark stormcloud on the distant horizon . For the time being the bluff innocence Ruminating ...
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... Thomas Pennant FRS immediately on arrival : ' A few short lines must suffice ... Mr Buchan , Mr Parkinson and Mr Sporing are all dead , as is our Astronomer , seven officers , and about a third part of the ship's crew of diseases ...
... Thomas Pennant FRS immediately on arrival : ' A few short lines must suffice ... Mr Buchan , Mr Parkinson and Mr Sporing are all dead , as is our Astronomer , seven officers , and about a third part of the ship's crew of diseases ...
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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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