The Age of Wonder Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Richard Holmes
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
178

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes Book Summary

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.

BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards.

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Book Name The Age of Wonder
Genre Science History
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Language English
E-Book Size 16.03 MB

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Summary of The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

The The Age of Wonder book written by Richard Holmes was published on 14 July 2009, Tuesday in the Science History category. A total of 178 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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