Título:
The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes.
ISBN:
9780375422225
Autor personal:
Edición:
First U.S. edition.
Información de publicación:
New York : Pantheon Books, [2008]
©2008
Descripción física:
xxi, 552 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Contenido:
Joseph Banks in paradise -- Herschel on the moon -- Balloonists in heaven -- Herschel among the stars -- Mungo Park in Africa -- Davy on the gas -- Dr. Frankenstein and the soul -- Davy and the lamp -- Sorcerer and apprentice -- Young scientists.
Síntesis:
"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.
DAK_OCLC_NUMBER:
ocn264044731
Disponibilidad:
~0
