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100 1 $aHolmes, Richard,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81092200
245 14 $aThe age of wonder :$bhow the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science /$cRichard Holmes.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axxi, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tJoseph Banks in Paradise -- $g2.$tHerschel on the Moon -- $g3.$tBalloonists in Heaven -- $g4.$tHerschel Among the Stars -- $g5.$tMungo Park in Africa -- $g6.$tDavy on the Gas -- $g7.$tDr. Frankenstein and the Soul -- $g8.$tDavy and the Lamp -- $g9.$tSorcerer and Apprentice -- $g10.$tYoung Scientists.
520 1 $a"Two scientific lives dominate book: that of William Herschel, whose tireless dedication to the stars, assisted (and perhaps rivalled) by his comet-finding sister Caroline, changed forever the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and the meaning of the universe itself. Meanwhile Humphry Davy, a grammar-school boy from Cornwall, shocked the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments, then went on to invent the miners' lamp, and to establish British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe - but at the cost, perhaps, of his own heart." "Conceived as a 'relay race of scientific stories', The Age of Wonder proposes a radical vision of science before Darwin, exploring the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the startling impact of discovery on great writers and poets such as Mary Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aScience$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aDiscoveries in science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.
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