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Age of Wonder

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#422706
Titel	Age of Wonder. How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Auteur	Holmes, Richard
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Harper Press
Jaar van uitgave	2009
ISBN10	0007149530
ISBN13	9780007149537
Taal	Nederlands
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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.
Pagina's	554
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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