The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes.
Holmes, Richard, 1945-
2008
Q127.G4 H65 2008 (Mapit)
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Title The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes.
Author Holmes, Richard, 1945-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780375422225
0375422226
Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
Language English
Description xxi, 552 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number Q127.G4 H65 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 509.41/09033
Summary "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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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