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 75
Pagina xvi
... Philosophical Lectures of 1819. It was inspired primarily by a sudden series of breakthroughs in the fields of astronomy and chemistry . It was a movement that grew out of eighteenth - century Enlightenment rationalism , but largely ...
... Philosophical Lectures of 1819. It was inspired primarily by a sudden series of breakthroughs in the fields of astronomy and chemistry . It was a movement that grew out of eighteenth - century Enlightenment rationalism , but largely ...
Pagina xix
... philosophical ' societies , most notably the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street in 1799 , the Geological Society in 1807 , the Astronomical Society in 1820 , and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 . Much ...
... philosophical ' societies , most notably the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street in 1799 , the Geological Society in 1807 , the Astronomical Society in 1820 , and the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1831 . Much ...
Pagina xx
... philosophical thought : ' In Wonder all Philosophy began : in Wonder it ends ... But the first Wonder is the Offspring of Ignorance ; the last is the Parent of Adoration . " Wonder , in other words , goes through various stages ...
... philosophical thought : ' In Wonder all Philosophy began : in Wonder it ends ... But the first Wonder is the Offspring of Ignorance ; the last is the Parent of Adoration . " Wonder , in other words , goes through various stages ...
Pagina 16
... philosophical issue about the nature of justice , property and ownership in society evidently lurked beneath these fleeting reflections of Banks and Cook . Over the next thirty years it would be addressed in various ways by Jean ...
... philosophical issue about the nature of justice , property and ownership in society evidently lurked beneath these fleeting reflections of Banks and Cook . Over the next thirty years it would be addressed in various ways by Jean ...
Pagina 17
... philosophical , observing , not without humour , that there was a cautionary tale told about Captain Wallis's ship the Dolphin when leaving Polynesian waters two years previously , so many nails had been surreptitiously prised out of ...
... philosophical , observing , not without humour , that there was a cautionary tale told about Captain Wallis's ship the Dolphin when leaving Polynesian waters two years previously , so many nails had been surreptitiously prised out of ...
Sommario
1 | |
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 |
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty ... Richard Holmes Anteprima limitata - 2010 |
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and ... Richard Holmes Visualizzazione estratti - 2008 |
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and ... Richard Holmes Anteprima non disponibile - 2009 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Archive Mss Box astronomer Babbage balloon Banks's beautiful became Beddoes began Bristol British brother Caroline Herschel Caroline's Charles Charles Babbage chemical chemist chemistry Coleridge comet Cook Darwin Davies Giddy Davy's discovery edited electricity English Erasmus Darwin expedition experiments explore eyes Faraday forty-foot Frankenstein French HD Archive Mss History huge human Humphry Davy Ibid idea James Jane Jeffries John Herschel Journal Keats laboratory Lady later Lavoisier lectures letter light London Lunardi Mary Mary Shelley Maskelyne Michael Faraday Montgolfier moon Mungo Park nature nebulae never Nevil Maskelyne Newton night nitrous oxide observation Paris Park's Penzance perhaps Philosophical Pilātre planet poem poet poetry published Romantic Royal Institution Royal Society safety lamp scientific seemed Shelley Sir Humphry Sir Joseph Banks Solander stars Tahiti Tahitian telescope Thomas Thomas Beddoes thought Treneer universe voyage WH Chronicle WH Mss WH Papers William Herschel Wordsworth wrote young