How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
electronic resource
English language
Published April 12, 2009 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008 popular biography book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes. In it, the author describes the scientific discoveries of the polymaths of the late eighteenth century and how this period formed the basis for modern scientific discoveries. The book won the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, and the 2010 National Academies Communication Award.
Intriguing how much of all this I didn't know, the pre-Napoleonic period seems neglected . Amazed at the material on the Herschels and how much we owe to self taught explorers of both the stars and telescope technology.
Still reading it......
Somewhere shortly after the Herschels, into the vitality stuff this really slowed to a crawl. I did finsih it but it was a struggle.
