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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... Newton after R. Livesay , 1785 . © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library Vincent Lunardi . Print published by E. Hedges , 1784 . James Sadler , by Edmund Scott , after James Roberts , 1785. © Science Museum / Science ...
... Newton after R. Livesay , 1785 . © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library Vincent Lunardi . Print published by E. Hedges , 1784 . James Sadler , by Edmund Scott , after James Roberts , 1785. © Science Museum / Science ...
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... Newton . Bronze statue by Eduardo Paolozzi , 1995. © Rob Ford / Alamy Hubble Telescope image showing the Andromeda galaxy . © Adam Block / Science Photo Library Two things fill my mind with ever new and increasing xii THE AGE OF WONDER.
... Newton . Bronze statue by Eduardo Paolozzi , 1995. © Rob Ford / Alamy Hubble Telescope image showing the Andromeda galaxy . © Adam Block / Science Photo Library Two things fill my mind with ever new and increasing xii THE AGE OF WONDER.
Pagina xvi
... Newton , Hooke , Locke and Descartes , and the almost simultaneous foundations of the Royal Society in London and the Académie des Sciences in Paris . Its existence has long been accepted , and the biographies of its leading figures are ...
... Newton , Hooke , Locke and Descartes , and the almost simultaneous foundations of the Royal Society in London and the Académie des Sciences in Paris . Its existence has long been accepted , and the biographies of its leading figures are ...
Pagina xvii
... Newton into a Romantic one . While a university student in the 1780s Wordsworth had often contemplated the full - size marble statue of Newton , with his severely close - cropped hair , that still dominates the stone - flagged entrance ...
... Newton into a Romantic one . While a university student in the 1780s Wordsworth had often contemplated the full - size marble statue of Newton , with his severely close - cropped hair , that still dominates the stone - flagged entrance ...
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... Newton , aged twenty- five , had retired from Cambridge during the Plague of 1665. Various versions of the story began to appear after his death in 1727. It appears in Stukeley's unpublished Memoir of Newton , originally written in 1727 ...
... Newton , aged twenty- five , had retired from Cambridge during the Plague of 1665. Various versions of the story began to appear after his death in 1727. It appears in Stukeley's unpublished Memoir of Newton , originally written in 1727 ...
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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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