The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The acclaimed biographer of Coleridge and Shelley here explores the scientific ferment that swept through the Romantic era, through the portraits of 3 remarkable scientific friendships: astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday, and the medical scientists John Abernethy and William Lawrence.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-00-714953-7
- EAN: 9780007149537
- Produktnummer: 4560699
- Verlag: Harpercollins Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 380 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B13.1 cm x D4.3 cm 445 g
- Auflage: ePub edition
- Abbildungen: Illustrations (chiefly col.), map, ports. (chiefly col.)
- Gewicht: 445
Über den Autor
Richard Holmes is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia (2001-2007). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. His first book, 'Shelley: The Pursuit', won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. 'Coleridge: Early Visions' won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and 'Dr Johnson and Mr Savage' won the James Tait Black Prize. 'Coleridge: Darker Reflections' won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. He lives in London and Norfolk with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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