The age of wonder
audiobook (Unabridged) ∣ how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
By Richard Holmes
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The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise Banks introduces us to the two scientific figures that dominate the book astronomer William Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy Herschel's tireless dedication to the stars, assisted (and perhaps rivalled) by his comet-finding sister Caroline, changed forever the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and the meaning of the universe itself Davy first shocked the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments in Bristol, then went on to save thousands of lives with his Safety Lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe
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