The age of wonder [electronic resource] : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes.

Author
Holmes, Richard, 1945- [Browse]
Format
Audio
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Vintage Books, 2010, c2008.
Description
1 sound file : digital

Availability

Available Online

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Summary note
"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.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ashland Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011 Available via World Wide Web.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Read by Gildart Jackson.
Contents
  • Joseph Banks in paradise
  • Herschel on the moon
  • Balloonists in heaven
  • Herschel among the stars
  • Mungo Park in Africa
  • Davy on the gas
  • Dr. Frankenstein and the soul
  • Davy and the lamp
  • Sorcerer and apprentice
  • Young scientists.
ISBN
9781455114351 (electronic audio bk.)
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