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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
ISBN: 9781400031870

Richard Holmes

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A popular biography book about the history of science and the scientific discoveries of the polymaths of the late eighteenth century and how this period formed the basis for modern scientific discoveries.Holmes, a literary biographer, focuses particularly on the lives and works of Sir Joseph Banks, the astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, and chemist Humphry Davy. Other profiles include African explorer Mungo Park. There is a chapter on the early history of ballooning including pioneers Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, Vincent Lunardi, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and James Sadler.

카테고리:

Biography & Autobiography - Science, Mathematics & Technology

년:

2008

출판사:

HarperPress;Random House of Canada

언어:

english

페이지:

611

ISBN 10:

1400031877