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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror电子书

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作       者:Richard Holmes

出  版  社:HarperPress

出版时间:2009-10-15

字       数:118.6万

所属分类: 进口书 > 外文原版书 > 法律/政治/宗教

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery – astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical – that together made up the ‘age of wonder’. In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period’s celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner’s lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration.
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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Prologue

1 Joseph Banks in Paradise

2 Herschel on the Moon

3 Balloonists in Heaven

4 Herschel Among the Stars

5 Mungo Park in Africa

6 Davy on the Gas

7 Dr Frankenstein and the Soul

8 Davy and the Lamp

9 Sorcerer and Apprentice

10 Young Scientists

Epilogue

Cast List

Keep Reading

Bibliography

References

Acknowledgements

Index

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

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