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 xx
... scientific passion , so much of which is summed up in that child- like , but infinitely complex word , wonder . Plato argued that the notion of ' wonder ' was central to all philosophical thought : ' In Wonder all Philosophy began : in ...
... scientific passion , so much of which is summed up in that child- like , but infinitely complex word , wonder . Plato argued that the notion of ' wonder ' was central to all philosophical thought : ' In Wonder all Philosophy began : in ...
Pagina xxi
... scientific Virgil . It is no coincidence that he began his career a young and naïve scientific traveller , an adventurer and secret journal - keeper . However , he ended it as the longest - serving , most experienced and most ...
... scientific Virgil . It is no coincidence that he began his career a young and naïve scientific traveller , an adventurer and secret journal - keeper . However , he ended it as the longest - serving , most experienced and most ...
Pagina 9
... scientific library and collection of prints and drawings . His rapidly expanding circle of scientific friends included the rakish Lord Sandwich , future head of the Admiralty , and the quiet , portly and dedicated Daniel Solander , a ...
... scientific library and collection of prints and drawings . His rapidly expanding circle of scientific friends included the rakish Lord Sandwich , future head of the Admiralty , and the quiet , portly and dedicated Daniel Solander , a ...
Pagina 16
... scientific instruments . To the Tahitians it was wholly justifiable to redistribute such items . Banks , who had to keep a watchful eye on his scientific equipment , noticeably his dissection knives and his two solar microscopes , noted ...
... scientific instruments . To the Tahitians it was wholly justifiable to redistribute such items . Banks , who had to keep a watchful eye on his scientific equipment , noticeably his dissection knives and his two solar microscopes , noted ...
Pagina 46
... scientific publication of Banks's lifetime , his masterpiece . 9 The Pacific voyage , despite its final horrors of sickness and death , had not dampened Banks's scientific wanderlust . To explore is my Wish , " he wrote the following ...
... scientific publication of Banks's lifetime , his masterpiece . 9 The Pacific voyage , despite its final horrors of sickness and death , had not dampened Banks's scientific wanderlust . To explore is my Wish , " he wrote the following ...
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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