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Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery – astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical – that together made up the ‘age of wonder’.
In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period’s celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner’s lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration.
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2009
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  • Keysleen Aohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    The notion of an infinite, mysterious Nature, waiting to be discovered or seduced into revealing all her secrets
  • Keysleen Aohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    a Mind for ever
    Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone
  • Keysleen Aohar citeretfor 5 år siden
    its ideal of subjectivity eternally opposed to that of scientific objectivity.

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