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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

Richard Holmes (Author)
"The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy
Print Book, English, 2008
First United States edition View all formats and editions
Pantheon Books, New York, 2008
Biographies
xxi, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
9780375422225, 9781400031870, 0375422226, 1400031877
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Joseph Banks in paradise
Herschel on the moon
Balloonists in heaven
Herschel among the stars
Mungo Park in Africa
Davy on the gas
Dr. Frankenstein and the soul
Davy and the lamp
Sorcerer and apprentice
Young scientists
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