- se flere aktuelle bøker fra Tronsmo »
KJØP DEN NÅ!
THE AGE OF WONDER

Av:
Richard Holmes

249.00

Tips en venn om denne boka:









THE AGE OF WONDER

HOW THE ROMANTIC GENERATION DISCOVERED THE BEAUTY AND TERROR OF SCIENCE

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.
The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery - astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical - that together made up the 'age of wonder'.
In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period's celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner's lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration.

Utgivelsesår: 2009
Forlag: Harper Press
Innbundet: nei
Sidetall: 380
Isbn nr.: 9780007149537
Språk: UK

Emneord:
Historie

HANDLEKURV

Handlekurven er tom

Legg produktene du ønsker i handlekurven og gå til kassen for å betale.

Du kan også lagre handlelister til senere bruk - eller dele dine lister med andre.

Les våre betingelser.

Vi godtar

Eller vi kan sende faktura.