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

4.0

From Joseph Banks's Tahiti voyage to Charles Babbage's prototype of the computer: The Age of Wonder is a fascinating ride through the history of British science during the Romantic period. Holmes tells us about the scientists and their lives, and the imprint of their discoveries on poetry and literature of that time, most notably the work of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and Mary Shelley.