@article{338569, author = {Holmes, Richard,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/338569}, title = {The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science /}, publisher = {Pantheon Books,}, abstract = {"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.}, recid = {338569}, pages = {xxi, 552 p., [24] p. of plates :}, address = {New York :}, year = {2008}, }