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age of wonder
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2009
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Description: xxi, 552 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Publisher, Date: New York : Pantheon Books, c2009.
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 be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy.
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ISBN: 9780375422225
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