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The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Paperback • 2009 • English

The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Richard Holmes

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780007149537

Publisher

HarperPress

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Format

Paperback

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