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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

Richard Holmes (Author)
"The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy

Print Book, English, 2008
First United States edition
Pantheon Books, New York, 2008