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 10
... Tahiti ; second , charting and exploring the Polynesian islands west of Cape Horn ; third , exploring the landmasses known to lie between the 30th and 40th parallels - New Zealand ( possibly the tip of a continent ) and Van Diemen's ...
... Tahiti ; second , charting and exploring the Polynesian islands west of Cape Horn ; third , exploring the landmasses known to lie between the 30th and 40th parallels - New Zealand ( possibly the tip of a continent ) and Van Diemen's ...
Pagina 11
... Tahiti and Indonesia . It had nearly destroyed Bougainville's entire crew the year before . Among the many friends Banks was leaving behind was Solander's colleague the botanist and horticulturalist James Lee , who took an intense ...
... Tahiti and Indonesia . It had nearly destroyed Bougainville's entire crew the year before . Among the many friends Banks was leaving behind was Solander's colleague the botanist and horticulturalist James Lee , who took an intense ...
Pagina 13
... Tahiti with over six weeks in which to prepare for its main task , the transit observations . Previous expeditions had often been decimated by this stage , but Cook had lost only four men , and none to disease . The crew's diet included ...
... Tahiti with over six weeks in which to prepare for its main task , the transit observations . Previous expeditions had often been decimated by this stage , but Cook had lost only four men , and none to disease . The crew's diet included ...
Pagina 14
... Tahiti were obviously exciting , but curiously tense . There was the unfortunate shooting in the first week , and the scare over the quadrant in the third . Young Alexander Buchan was taken ill again , and died from what appeared to be ...
... Tahiti were obviously exciting , but curiously tense . There was the unfortunate shooting in the first week , and the scare over the quadrant in the third . Young Alexander Buchan was taken ill again , and died from what appeared to be ...
Pagina 17
... Tahiti ] and its dependencies , which brings to mind the remark about the relative guilt of the man who steals a goose from off a common and the other who steals the common from under the goose . Patrick O'Brian , Joseph Banks : A Life ...
... Tahiti ] and its dependencies , which brings to mind the remark about the relative guilt of the man who steals a goose from off a common and the other who steals the common from under the goose . Patrick O'Brian , Joseph Banks : A Life ...
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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 |
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and ... Richard Holmes Visualizzazione estratti - 2008 |
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