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 ix
... telescope with which Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. Royal Astronomical Society . Drawing by Sir William Watson . © Royal Astronomical Society / Science Photo Library Herschel's seven - foot reflector telescope . Whipple Museum ...
... telescope with which Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. Royal Astronomical Society . Drawing by Sir William Watson . © Royal Astronomical Society / Science Photo Library Herschel's seven - foot reflector telescope . Whipple Museum ...
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... telescope . Whipple Museum , Cambridge . Photograph by Richard Holmes . Sir Joseph Banks holding an astronomical ... Telescope image of Uranus , August 2003 . NASA / ESA / STSCI / E . Karkoschka , U. Arizona / Science Photo Library ...
... telescope . Whipple Museum , Cambridge . Photograph by Richard Holmes . Sir Joseph Banks holding an astronomical ... Telescope image of Uranus , August 2003 . NASA / ESA / STSCI / E . Karkoschka , U. Arizona / Science Photo Library ...
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... telescope , the microscope , the barometer - but to intervene actively , using the voltaic battery , the electrical generator , the scalpel or the air pump . Even the Montgolfier balloon could be seen as an instrument of discovery , or ...
... telescope , the microscope , the barometer - but to intervene actively , using the voltaic battery , the electrical generator , the scalpel or the air pump . Even the Montgolfier balloon could be seen as an instrument of discovery , or ...
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... telescope by which , put into water , you can see the bottom at a great depth . ' He concluded reassuringly to Linnaeus : ' All this is owing to you and your writings.'11 But there was , of course , an element of imperial competition ...
... telescope by which , put into water , you can see the bottom at a great depth . ' He concluded reassuringly to Linnaeus : ' All this is owing to you and your writings.'11 But there was , of course , an element of imperial competition ...
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... telescope as they were hauled aboard the Endeavour while the hostages were released in exchange . Once he saw they were all ' safe and sound ' he discharged his own Tahitian prisoners ' from his tent , making each such a present as we ...
... telescope as they were hauled aboard the Endeavour while the hostages were released in exchange . Once he saw they were all ' safe and sound ' he discharged his own Tahitian prisoners ' from his tent , making each such a present as we ...
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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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