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

5.0

"I believe science needs to be presented and explored in a new way. We need not only a new history of science, but a more enlarged and imaginative biographical writing about individual scientists... we need to understand how science is actually made; how scientists themselves think and feel and speculate. We need to explore what make scientists creative, as well as poets or painters, or musicians..."

Yes, yes, and yes. This book is basically my dream.