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
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Pagina xxi
... young and naïve scientific traveller , an adventurer and secret journal - keeper . However , he ended it as the longest - serving , most experienced and most domineering President of the Royal Society : the botanist , diplomat and ...
... young and naïve scientific traveller , an adventurer and secret journal - keeper . However , he ended it as the longest - serving , most experienced and most domineering President of the Royal Society : the botanist , diplomat and ...
Pagina 1
... young Joseph Banks , official botanist to HM Bark Endeavour , first clapped eyes on the island of Tahiti , 17 degrees South , 149 degrees West . He had been told that this was the location of Paradise : a wonderful idea , although he ...
... young Joseph Banks , official botanist to HM Bark Endeavour , first clapped eyes on the island of Tahiti , 17 degrees South , 149 degrees West . He had been told that this was the location of Paradise : a wonderful idea , although he ...
Pagina 4
... young Frenchmen at work , sailors who had not seen a woman for six months , in view of what followed . In spite of all our pre- cautions , a young Tahitian girl slipped aboard and placed herself on the quarterdeck immediately above one ...
... young Frenchmen at work , sailors who had not seen a woman for six months , in view of what followed . In spite of all our pre- cautions , a young Tahitian girl slipped aboard and placed herself on the quarterdeck immediately above one ...
Pagina 7
... young woman having her buttocks tattooed , are frank and unforgettable . He attended Tahitian ceremonial events , slept in their huts , ate their food , recorded their customs and learned their language . He was pioneering a new kind of ...
... young woman having her buttocks tattooed , are frank and unforgettable . He attended Tahitian ceremonial events , slept in their huts , ate their food , recorded their customs and learned their language . He was pioneering a new kind of ...
Pagina 8
... young botanist available . He came back triumphantly with a gifted young Jewish botanist , Israel Lyons , who had agreed to teach the subject to Banks and a group of like - minded undergraduates at Oxford . Banks paid Lyons a good ...
... young botanist available . He came back triumphantly with a gifted young Jewish botanist , Israel Lyons , who had agreed to teach the subject to Banks and a group of like - minded undergraduates at Oxford . Banks paid Lyons a good ...
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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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