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  1. THE AGE OF WONDER. How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. By Richard Holmes. Illustrated. 552 pp. Pantheon Books. $40

  2. Jul 14, 2009 · amazon. The excruciating story of a young man on a quest for knowledge and experience, a search that eventually cooked his goose, told with the flair of a seasoned investigative reporter by Outside magazine contributing editor Krakauer (Eiger Dreams, 1990).

  3. Oct 1, 2008 · 'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science'.

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  4. Aug 10, 2017 · Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a nonfiction book that combines science, history, biography, and a dollop of poetry to cover an amazing era of scientific discovery and artistic innovation. It covers the Georgian Era in England and ends at the beginning of the Victorian.

  5. Oct 17, 2023 · The Age of Wonder (2008, Vintage Books) focuses on some of the engaging figures in science as it emerges from its chrysalis into the modern discipline – the title reflects the blending of data and observation with musing on the sublime, the supernatural, and the holy that characterized the era.

  6. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008 popular biography book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes.

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  8. Mar 12, 2013 · 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.

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