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The age of wonder

by Holmes, Richard

ScienceHistoryIntellectual lifeScientistsDiscoveries in scienceScience, great britainBanks, joseph, 1743-1820Herschel, william, sir, 1738-1822

"The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science."

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