The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
Summary
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the 18th century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science, "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... Full description
- 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.