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47-3778 Q127 2008-49587 CIP Holmes, Richard. The age of wonder: how the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science. [1st U.S. ed.]. Pantheon Books, 2009 (C2008). 552p bibl index ISBN 9780375422225, $40.00
Authored by well-known writer/biographer Holmes, this interesting description of the "second scientific revolution" or "Romantic science" is an excellent history of both the onset of the Romantic...