Name: The age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (en Inglés)
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Author: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 9781400031870

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portada The age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage

Autor

Richard Holmes

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

552

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

1.70

ISBN

9781400031870

ISBN13

9781400031870

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Biografías de científicos y doctores

The age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (en Inglés)

Richard Holmes (Autor) · Vintage · Tapa Blanda

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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.