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

by Richard Holmes

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Language English
Total Pages 380 pages
ISBN
9780007149520
Published
2008
Description
'the age of wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through britain at the end of the 18th century, and which holmes now radically ...
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'the age of wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through britain at the end of the 18th century, and which holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of romantic science'.
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