The age of wonder / Holmes, Richard

ISBN13: 
9780375422225
9781400031870
LCCN: 
2008049587
Compare Title: 
theageofwonderhowtheromanticgenerationdiscoveredthebeautyandterrorofscience
Call Number: 
509.41

The age of wonder

how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
2008
Discusses the influence of discoveries by astronomer William Herschel and his sister Caroline; chemist and poet Humphrey Davy, and explorer Joseph Banks on the Romantic Age as elements of religious faith and scientific truth combined to form a new cultural paradigm.
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