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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes

This history examines the scientific revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain through the work of figures such as Joseph Banks, William Herschel, and Humphry Davy. It documents developments in astronomy, chemistry, and exploration that characterised the Romantic era.

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