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

3.0

Intriguing how much of all this I didn't know, the pre-Napoleonic period seems neglected . Amazed at the material on the Herschels and how much we owe to self taught explorers of both the stars and telescope technology.

Still reading it......

Somewhere shortly after the Herschels, into the vitality stuff this really slowed to a crawl. I did finsih it but it was a struggle.