Pocket • 2009 • Engelsk

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

Name: The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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ISBN: 9780007149537

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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 ...Vis mer

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9780007149537

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HarperPress

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2009

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Engelsk

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

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Pocket

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