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2010., Vintage Books Call No: 509.41 H749a Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: This volume examines and recounts the history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. Notable among them are Joseph Banks, a botanist whose experiences in Tahiti were life-changing; William Herschel, the eccentric astronomer who (aided invaluably by his devoted sister, Caroline) discovered the planet Uranus; and Humphrey Davy, an intrepid chemist who conducted gas inhalation experiments on himself. These and others are depicted against the cultural tapestry of an age of idealism, which was both fueled and threatened by the advances of science.
