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 7
... journal entries cover everything from clothes ( or lack of them ) and cookery to dancing , tattooing , sexual practices , fishing methods , wood - carving , and religious beliefs . His accounts of a dog being roasted , or a young woman ...
... journal entries cover everything from clothes ( or lack of them ) and cookery to dancing , tattooing , sexual practices , fishing methods , wood - carving , and religious beliefs . His accounts of a dog being roasted , or a young woman ...
Pagina 12
... journal that he would probably never see Europe again , and that there were only two people in the world who would truly miss him . " Today for the first time we dined in Africa , and took our leave of Europe for heaven alone knows how ...
... journal that he would probably never see Europe again , and that there were only two people in the world who would truly miss him . " Today for the first time we dined in Africa , and took our leave of Europe for heaven alone knows how ...
Pagina 14
... 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 entertaining ...
... 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 entertaining ...
Pagina 15
... journal . Yet the expedi tion's other artist , the eighteen - year - old Sydney Parkinson , had no doubts about his employer's humanity . He had witnessed how Banks had nursed Buchan in the Tierra del Fuego débâcle , and wrote a long ...
... journal . Yet the expedi tion's other artist , the eighteen - year - old Sydney Parkinson , had no doubts about his employer's humanity . He had witnessed how Banks had nursed Buchan in the Tierra del Fuego débâcle , and wrote a long ...
Pagina 18
... journal for 6 June 1769 reflecting on them . Certainly he had taken every precaution that his own crew were free from sexual infection when they arrived . They had been examined by Mr Monkhouse , the Endeavour's surgeon , and they had ...
... journal for 6 June 1769 reflecting on them . Certainly he had taken every precaution that his own crew were free from sexual infection when they arrived . They had been examined by Mr Monkhouse , the Endeavour's surgeon , and they had ...
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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