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Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th ...Show synopsisRichard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography 'The Age of Wonder'. 'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, 'The Age of Wonder' and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science'. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to what truly emerges as an Age of Wonder. Banks introduces us to the two scientific figures that dominate the book: astronomer William Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy.Herschel's tireless dedication to the stars, assisted (and perhaps rivalled) by his comet-finding sister Caroline, changed forever the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and the meaning of the universe itself. Davy first shocked the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments in Bristol, then went on to save thousands of lives with his Safety Lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe. But at the cost, perhaps, of his own heart. Holmes proposes a radical vision of science before Darwin, exploring the earliest ideas of deep time and deep space, the creative rivalry with the French scientific establishment, and the startling impact of discovery on great writers and poets such as Mary Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. With his trademark sense of the human drama, he shows how great ideas and experiments are born out of lonely passion, how scientific discoveries (and errors) are made, how intense relationships are forged and broken by research, and how religious faith and scientific truth collide.The result is breathtaking in its originality, its story-telling energy, and not least, in its intellectual significance.Hide synopsis
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science – Audiobook CD
(2011)
by Richard Holmes, Gildart Jackson (Read by)
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science – Audiobook CD
(2011)
by Richard Holmes, Richard Holmes, Gildart Jackson (Read by)
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science – Audiobook CD
(2011)
by Richard Holmes, Gildart Jackson (Read by)
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon Books) – Hardcover (2009)
by
Richard Holmes
Hardcover, Pantheon Books 2009
English
552 pages
ISBN: 0375422226 ISBN-13: 9780375422225
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the 18th century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science, "The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered.A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the 18th century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science, "The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered.Hide
Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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Title: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Author:Richard Holmes ISBN-13:9780375422225 ISBN:0375422226
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This book was one of the textbooks recommended for a class. I started paging through it and got caught up in the material. It is a great book, a good mix of history, invention, science ...
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This is a very readable book that takes us back to the beginning of critical scientific thought with realistic depictions of the men AND women making the discoveries underpinning the modern world. Well Done!
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This is a history of the development of the "humanizing" of science. Discoveries and theories are reaching nonscientists and poets, musicians, and other creative folks are drawn to things that are suddenly no longer in the territory of imagination. One of the early researchers was a botanist-turned ...
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This is a fast moving account of the major figures in England's Royal Society from the time of Joseph Banks to that of Michael Farraday. Beginning with an account of Banks as botanist on Captain Cook's travels to Tahiti, the book goes on to tell of Banks career as president of the Royal Society and ...
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