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 xiii
... nature ; that our triumphs are complete ; and that there are no new worlds to conquer . HUMPHRY DAVY , lecture ... natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling ... a soap bubble ... an apple ... a pebble ... He ...
... nature ; that our triumphs are complete ; and that there are no new worlds to conquer . HUMPHRY DAVY , lecture ... natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling ... a soap bubble ... an apple ... a pebble ... He ...
Pagina xviii
... Nature , waiting to be discovered or seduced into revealing all her secrets , was widely held . Scientific instru ... Natural theology ' , in which science reveals evidence of a divine Creation or intelligent design . * The apple fell in ...
... Nature , waiting to be discovered or seduced into revealing all her secrets , was widely held . Scientific instru ... Natural theology ' , in which science reveals evidence of a divine Creation or intelligent design . * The apple fell in ...
Pagina xx
... Nature's : My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life began So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old , Or let me die ! ... This book is centred on two scientific lives , those of the ...
... Nature's : My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life began So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old , Or let me die ! ... This book is centred on two scientific lives , those of the ...
Pagina 7
... natural that I should be taught to know all the produc- tions of Nature , in preference to Greek and Latin ; but the latter is my father's command and it is my duty to obey him ... He began immediately to teach himself Botany ...
... natural that I should be taught to know all the produc- tions of Nature , in preference to Greek and Latin ; but the latter is my father's command and it is my duty to obey him ... He began immediately to teach himself Botany ...
Pagina 10
... Natural History ; nor more elegantly . They have got a fine library of Natural History ; they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kinds of nets , trawls , drags and hooks for coral fishing ; they have ...
... Natural History ; nor more elegantly . They have got a fine library of Natural History ; they have all sorts of machines for catching and preserving insects ; all kinds of nets , trawls , drags and hooks for coral fishing ; they have ...
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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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty ... Richard Holmes Anteprima limitata - 2010 |
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