About this title: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780007149537ISBN:0007149530
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 380 pages. Shortlisted for the bbc samuel johnson prize for non-fiction shortlisted for the royal society prize for science book richard holmes, prize-winning biographer of coleridge and shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across britain at the end of the 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography 'the age of wonder'. illustrations (chiefly col. ), map, ports. (chiefly col. ) (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London, England
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780007149520ISBN:0007149522
Description: As New in As New jacket. Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering. 554 pages. As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book Of The Week. Illustrated endpapers. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HARPERPRESS
Date Published: 1/1/2008
ISBN-13:9780007149520ISBN:0007149522
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780007149537ISBN:0007149530
Description: New. Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Book Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperPress
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780007149537ISBN:0007149530
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780375422225ISBN:0375422226
Description: New. 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 wa... read more
Description: Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of the 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 ... read more
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"Very well researched about an era I didn't know much about before. Not a book you can read at one sitting - best in small bites. The author has done an amazing job of finding sources for his inventors/scientists. I'd read it again and plan on passing it along to others."
"Richard Holmes follows the great scientists of (mostly) England, from Joseph Banks' trip with Captain Cook to Tahiti to Sir Humphry Davy's death just before Darwin heads off in the Beagle. These men were friends and acquaintances of the Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats: the objects of Holmes' writing prior to this book. Many of the scientists Holmes considers were musicians (William Herschel) or poets (Davy) and were as informed by the Romantic poets in their understanding of the pursuit of knowledge and the pleasure of exploration as these poets were of the science being pursued during their lives. As Holmes' mentor George Steiner wrote about the history of mathematicians, "Locate this quest . . . and you will have flung open doors on 'seas of thought' deeper, more richly stocked than any on the globe." Holmes travels on just such deep, richly stocked seas, and what a trip! I did not want to return to port."
"Excellent and entertaining history of science from about 1790 to 1830 in England--back when all the scientists wrote poems and the poets did experiments. I've been inspired (or perhaps my recent inspiration made me want to read this)."
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