How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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The acclaimed biographer of Coleridge and Shelley here explores the scientific ferment that swept through the Romantic era, through the portraits of 3 remarkable scientific friendships: astronomers William and Caroline Herschel, chemists Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday, and the medical scientists John Abernethy and William Lawrence 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.