The age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science [Audiobook] download free by Richard Holmes
- Listen audiobook: The age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- Author: Richard Holmes
- Release date: 2009/7/16
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780007149537
- Rating: 8.95 of 10
- Votes: 163
- Review by: Theodore Guess
- Review rating: 8.27 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/25
- Duration: 4H44M7S in 256 kbps (76 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, AIFF, MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC (compression RAR, ALZ, TAR.Z, CBC, ZIP, AZW3)
- Total pages original book: 380
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M3S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Impact Of Science & Technology On Society
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.90 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x37mm
- Weight: 440g
- Printed by: HarperPress
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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