TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holmes,Richard
TI  - The age of wonder: how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science 
SN  - 9781400031870 (pbk.)
AV  - Q 127 H749a 2010
U1  - 509.4109033 
PY  - 2010///, c2008
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Herschel, William,
KW  - Herschel, Caroline Lucretia,
KW  - Davy, Humphry,
KW  - Science
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Discoveries in science
KW  - Desarrollo cientÃ­fico y tecnolÃ³gico
KW  - Gran BretaÃ±a
KW  - InvestigaciÃ³n cientÃ­fica
KW  - AstronomÃ­a
KW  - Investigaciones
KW  - QuÃ­mica
KW  - FÃ­sica
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-525) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -