TY - BOOK N2 - "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. AB - "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. T1 - The age of wonder :how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / DA - c2008. CY - New York : AU - Holmes, Richard, ET - 1st U.S. ed. CN - Q127.G4 CN - Q127.G4 PB - Pantheon Books, PP - New York : PY - c2008. ID - 338569 KW - Science KW - Discoveries in science SN - 9780375422225 SN - 0375422226 TI - The age of wonder :how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / ER -