The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Repost)
Richard Holmes "The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science"
HarperPress | English | July 14, 2009 | ISBN: 0375422226 | 576 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 5,6 mb
HarperPress | English | July 14, 2009 | ISBN: 0375422226 | 576 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 5,6 mb
This is a marvelous book, depicting an era where scientific work was far different than it is now. One did not need years of training or huge government investment to make a major discovery back then, but rather hard work and ingenuity. As an example, an amateur like William Hershel, a composer and instrument-maker could become the greatest astronomer of his generation. What's more, the discoveries were intelligible to all educated men of the time and could affect the arts, as we see from scientific comments of writers such as Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley. Who would ever have known that the author of the RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER also coined the word "psychosomatic" and may have coined the word "scientist"? The writer of this book did.