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 18
... thought they were probably correct , though he wondered if it was already endemic , brought either by the French or by the Spanish . ' However this is little satisfaction to them who must suffer by it in a very great degree and may in ...
... thought they were probably correct , though he wondered if it was already endemic , brought either by the French or by the Spanish . ' However this is little satisfaction to them who must suffer by it in a very great degree and may in ...
Pagina 28
... thought it wiser for them to sleep outside in their canoes , and they were ' rather out of humour : 44 The crisis was only gradually defused , as Cook allowed the canoes to be taken back three or four at a time , in return for small ...
... thought it wiser for them to sleep outside in their canoes , and they were ' rather out of humour : 44 The crisis was only gradually defused , as Cook allowed the canoes to be taken back three or four at a time , in return for small ...
Pagina 29
... thought it arose over Monkhouse propositioning Otheothea . Several of Oborea's Tahitian girls had arrived at Banks's tent ' very earnest in getting themselves husbands . They behaved ' very agreeable until bedtime , and determined to ...
... thought it arose over Monkhouse propositioning Otheothea . Several of Oborea's Tahitian girls had arrived at Banks's tent ' very earnest in getting themselves husbands . They behaved ' very agreeable until bedtime , and determined to ...
Pagina 30
... thought nothing of foraging by himself ashore , once disappearing at dusk to hunt for provisions . He shot a duck and two curlews , then pressed on deeper inland . ' I went into the woods , it was quite dark so that neither people nor ...
... thought nothing of foraging by himself ashore , once disappearing at dusk to hunt for provisions . He shot a duck and two curlews , then pressed on deeper inland . ' I went into the woods , it was quite dark so that neither people nor ...
Pagina 34
... thought that once he was in England the Admiralty and the Crown would ' in all human probability refuse to support him finan- cially . Banks had no such hesitations , and resolved to be responsible for both Tupia's welfare and his ...
... thought that once he was in England the Admiralty and the Crown would ' in all human probability refuse to support him finan- cially . Banks had no such hesitations , and resolved to be responsible for both Tupia's welfare and his ...
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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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