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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.
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.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | Neuzeit |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 554 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780007149537 |
| ISBN-10: | 0007149530 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 025861 |
| Autor: | Holmes, Richard |
| Auflage: | Repr. |
| Hersteller: | HarperPress |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Abbildungen: | figs. on plates (mostly col.). |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 37 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Richard Holmes |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.09.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,44 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2009 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | Neuzeit |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 554 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780007149537 |
| ISBN-10: | 0007149530 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 025861 |
| Autor: | Holmes, Richard |
| Auflage: | Repr. |
| Hersteller: | HarperPress |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com |
| Abbildungen: | figs. on plates (mostly col.). |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 37 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Richard Holmes |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 03.09.2009 |
| Gewicht: | 0,44 kg |
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