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. |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 68
Pagina xv
... beautiful crystal , the size of a flat- tened Fox's Glacier Mint , a miniature ziggurat with a faint blue opales- cence , propped up against the inside of the glass ( too big to lie flat ) , monumental and mysterious to my eyes . No one ...
... beautiful crystal , the size of a flat- tened Fox's Glacier Mint , a miniature ziggurat with a faint blue opales- cence , propped up against the inside of the glass ( too big to lie flat ) , monumental and mysterious to my eyes . No one ...
Pagina xxi
... 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.
Pagina 1
... beautiful ' lunar rainbows . When his gums had begun bleed- ing ominously with the onset of scurvy , he had calmly treated himself with a specially pre - prepared syrup ( ' Dr Hume's mixture ' ) of concen- trated lemon juice , taking ...
... beautiful ' lunar rainbows . When his gums had begun bleed- ing ominously with the onset of scurvy , he had calmly treated himself with a specially pre - prepared syrup ( ' Dr Hume's mixture ' ) of concen- trated lemon juice , taking ...
Pagina 32
... beautiful and lucid chart of the island , the figure of eight with its ' marshy isthmus ' at the join , which would serve European mariners for generations to come , a model of clarity and accuracy . Banks had hugely increased his ...
... beautiful and lucid chart of the island , the figure of eight with its ' marshy isthmus ' at the join , which would serve European mariners for generations to come , a model of clarity and accuracy . Banks had hugely increased his ...
Pagina 33
... beautiful waterfall , surrounded by ' truly dreadful ' cliffs more than a hundred feet high . Beneath it lay ' a pool so deep that the Indians said we could not go beyond it . Here , in this enchanted but faintly menacing place , the ...
... beautiful waterfall , surrounded by ' truly dreadful ' cliffs more than a hundred feet high . Beneath it lay ' a pool so deep that the Indians said we could not go beyond it . Here , in this enchanted but faintly menacing place , the ...
Sommario
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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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