The age of wonder - how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
This book explores the lives of the men and women of science at the turn of the nineteenth century. The subject is scientific passion in its broadest sense, and the beauty and terror with which it transformed the world then, and may yet save the world now.
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