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 9
... wrote to him with some astonishment that it was rumoured that you was going to the country of the Eskimaux Indians to gratify your taste for Natural Knowledge " . Banks demonstrated his energy and commitment on this expedition , earning ...
... wrote to him with some astonishment that it was rumoured that you was going to the country of the Eskimaux Indians to gratify your taste for Natural Knowledge " . Banks demonstrated his energy and commitment on this expedition , earning ...
Pagina 14
... wrote in his journal : ' Dr Solander Mr Sporing Mr Parkinson and some of the officers of the ship attended his funeral . I sincerely regret him as an ingenious and good young man , but his Loss to me is irretrievable , my airy dreams of ...
... wrote in his journal : ' Dr Solander Mr Sporing Mr Parkinson and some of the officers of the ship attended his funeral . I sincerely regret him as an ingenious and good young man , but his Loss to me is irretrievable , my airy dreams of ...
Pagina 15
... wrote a long entry in his own journal reflecting on Banks's response to the unnecessary shooting of the Tahitian over the stolen musket . ' When Mr Banks heard of the affair , he was highly displeased , saying , " If we quarrel with ...
... wrote a long entry in his own journal reflecting on Banks's response to the unnecessary shooting of the Tahitian over the stolen musket . ' When Mr Banks heard of the affair , he was highly displeased , saying , " If we quarrel with ...
Pagina 43
... wrote in Banks's praise : ' I cannot sufficiently admire Mr Banks who has exposed himself to so many dangers and has bestowed more money in the services of Natural History than any other man . Surely none but an Englishman would have ...
... wrote in Banks's praise : ' I cannot sufficiently admire Mr Banks who has exposed himself to so many dangers and has bestowed more money in the services of Natural History than any other man . Surely none but an Englishman would have ...
Pagina 44
... wrote with delicious outrage of Tahitian dances and sexual practices . The girls danced the timorodee with ' motions and gestures beyond imagination wanton ... a scale of dissolute sensuality wholly unknown to every other nation ... and ...
... wrote with delicious outrage of Tahitian dances and sexual practices . The girls danced the timorodee with ' motions and gestures beyond imagination wanton ... a scale of dissolute sensuality wholly unknown to every other nation ... and ...
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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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