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

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

Richard Holmes

380 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography .Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books.Shor...

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