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 xvii
... light Of moon or favouring stars , I could behold The Antechapel where the Statue stood Of Newton , with his prism and his silent face , The marble index of a Mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought , alone . " Around ...
... light Of moon or favouring stars , I could behold The Antechapel where the Statue stood Of Newton , with his prism and his silent face , The marble index of a Mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought , alone . " Around ...
Pagina xix
... light of reason is surrounded by the intense , psychological chiaroscuro associated with Georges de la Tour . This is most evident in the famous series of scientific demonstration scenes painted at the height of his career : The Orrery ...
... light of reason is surrounded by the intense , psychological chiaroscuro associated with Georges de la Tour . This is most evident in the famous series of scientific demonstration scenes painted at the height of his career : The Orrery ...
Pagina 7
... light . Their beauty and strangeness came to him like a revelation . After some reflection , he said to himself , it is surely more natural that I should be taught to know all the produc- tions of Nature , in preference to Greek and ...
... light . Their beauty and strangeness came to him like a revelation . After some reflection , he said to himself , it is surely more natural that I should be taught to know all the produc- tions of Nature , in preference to Greek and ...
Pagina 14
... light a fire , but it was doused by falling snow . It was ' absolutely impossible ' to bring the two men down . Finally he laid them out on a bed of branches , covered them with brushwood , and left them , hoping they would survive the ...
... light a fire , but it was doused by falling snow . It was ' absolutely impossible ' to bring the two men down . Finally he laid them out on a bed of branches , covered them with brushwood , and left them , hoping they would survive the ...
Pagina 45
... light - hearted let- ter entitled ' Thoughts on the Manners of the Otaheite ' . It was a surpris- ing piece , skittish and suggestive in tone , mannered in its classical references , and verging on the kind of mild pornographic frisson ...
... light - hearted let- ter entitled ' Thoughts on the Manners of the Otaheite ' . It was a surpris- ing piece , skittish and suggestive in tone , mannered in its classical references , and verging on the kind of mild pornographic frisson ...
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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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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty ... Richard Holmes Anteprima limitata - 2010 |
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