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

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

Richard Holmes

380 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 revoluti...

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