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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Holmes, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375422226
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422225
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+ Dust Jacket. 8x0x10. 1st printing of 1st edition (U.S.), as stated and with complete number line. Interior appears free of markings. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Unclipped DJ protected in Mylar wraps. Shelfwear is minimal. NOT ex-library. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Synopsis
A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook on his first Endeavour voyage in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery--astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical--swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's original evocation of what truly emerges as an Age of Wonder. Brilliantly conceived as a relay of scientific stories, The Age of Wonder investigates the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of "dynamic science," of an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel and his sister Caroline, whose dedication to the study of the stars forever changed the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way, and the meaning of the universe; and Humphry Davy, who, with only a grammar school education stunned the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments that led to the invention of the miners' lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe. This age of exploration extended to great writers and poets as well as scientists, all creators relishing in moments of high exhilaration, boundary-pushing and discovery. Holmes's extraordinary evocation of this age of wonder shows how great ideas and experiments--both successes and failures--were born of singular and often lonely dedication, and how religious faith and scientific truth collide. He has written a book breathtaking in its originality, its storytelling energy, and its intellectual significance.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 311854
- Title
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Author
- Holmes, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375422226
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422225
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8x0x10
- Keywords
- stre10
- X weight
- 35 oz
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About The Book House in Dinkytown
Used books bought and sold, classics and collectibles in all fields. In Dinkytown since 1976.
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- Shelfwear
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- Good+
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