The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes
Rating
LanguageEnglish
Total Pages380 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 ...'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'.