The Age of Wonder

Historical British Biographies

Author: Richard Holmes

A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science., , Brilliantly conceived as a relay of scientific stories, The Age of Wonder explores the earliest ideas and explorers of “dynamic science”: an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the bo….Read More

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