書名 : The age of wonder :how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science /
紀錄類型 : 書目-語言資料,印刷品: 單行本
正題名[資料類型標示]/作者 : The age of wonder :Richard Holmes.
其他題名 : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science /
其他題名 : How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
出版者 : New York :Pantheon Books,2008.
面頁冊數 : xxi, 552 p., [24] p. of plates :ill. (some col.), maps ;25 cm.
內容註 : 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.
ISBN : 9780375422225 (hbk.) :
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505 0 $aJoseph 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.
520 $a"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.