Book ID: CBB001024401

The Age of Wonder (2008)

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Holmes, Richard (Author)


Pantheon Books


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: xxi + 552 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On British science from the late 18th to the early 19th century, biographically focused on Joseph Banks, the Herschels, Humphry Davy, Mungo Park, and others.


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Authors & Contributors
Hoskin, Michael A.
Edmondson, Hattie Lloyd
Youngquist, Paul
Winterburn, Emily
Wiegand, Dometa J.
Steinicke, Wolfgang
Journals
History of Science
Nature
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Publishers
Science History Publications
Ashgate
Cambridge University Press
Washington State University
University of Minnesota Press
Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
Concepts
Science and literature
Astronomy
Romanticism
Science and culture
Chemistry
Telescopes
People
Herschel, William
Herschel, Caroline
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Darwin, Erasmus
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Herschel, John Frederick William
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Bath (England)
Hanover (Germany)
England
British Isles
Institutions
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
Royal Society of London
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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