The age of wonder how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.

The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery – astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical – that together made up the ‘age of wonder’.

In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period’s celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner’s lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration.

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Age Of Wonder

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Shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize and winner of the royal society prize for science books richard holmes s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement shortlisted for the samuel johnson prize and winner of the royal society prize for science Uiterlijk 25 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Age of Wonder

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A riveting 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 br Uiterlijk 30 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Age of Wonder

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Shortlisted for the bbc samuel johnson prize for non fiction and the royal society prize for science books richard holmes prize winning biographer of coleridge and shelley explores the scientific ferment that swept across britain at the end of 18th century in this ground breaking new biography Uiterlijk 30 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: E-book

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 oktober 2009

Ebook Formaat: Adobe ePub

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Hoofdauteur: Richard Holmes

Tweede Auteur: Richard Holmes

Hoofduitgeverij: Harperpress

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EAN: 9780007349883

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