The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Richard Holmes. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of. Wonder
Richard Holmes
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Table of Contents
Prologue. 1
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3
1 Joseph Banks in Paradise. 1
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2 Herschel on the Moon. 1
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3 Balloonists in Heaven. 1
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4 Herschel Among the Stars. 1
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5 Mungo Park in Africa. 1
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6 Davy on the Gas. 1
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7 Dr Frankenstein and the Soul. 1
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8 Davy and the Lamp. 1
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9 Sorcerer and Apprentice. 1
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10 Young Scientists. 1
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Epilogue
Cast List
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Bibliography
The Scientific and Intellectual Background 1760-1830
Joseph Banks
William and Caroline Herschel
The Balloonists
Mungo Park
Humphry Davy
Dr Frankenstein and the Soul
Sorcerer and Apprentice; and Young Scientists
References
Prologue
Chapter 1: Joseph Banks in Paradise
Chapter 2: Herschel on the Moon
Chapter 3: Balloonists in Heaven
Chapter 4: Herschel Among the Stars
Chapter 5: Mungo Park in Africa
Chapter 6: Davy on the Gas
Chapter 7: Dr Frankenstein and the Soul
Chapter 8: Davy and the Lamp
Chapter 9: Sorcerer and Apprentice
Chapter 10: Young Scientists
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
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How the Romantic Generation discoveredthe Beauty and Terror of Science
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On his return to London he made no attempt to get in touch with Harriet Blosset, though James Lee and Harriet’s mother clearly assumed that an engagement would be announced. It was obvious now that, whatever else, his experiences had left Banks utterly unfit for a quiet, regular, married life. Some evidence for this comes indirectly from a gossiping friend of Thomas Pennant’s. Even if not entirely accurate, it seems to reflect something of Banks’s disturbed state of mind. ‘Upon his arrival in England [Banks] took no sort of notice of Miss Blosset for the first week or nearly so…On this Miss Blosset set out for London and wrote him a letter desiring an interview of explanation. To this Mr Banks answered by a letter of 2 or 3 sheets, professing love etc but that he found he was of too volatile a temper to marry.’ They did have at least one painful meeting, when Harriet is reported to have wept and ‘swooned’.67
There was some talk of broken promises and scandal. One wit suggested that Banks should be ‘immediately placed in the Stocks…for this injury’.69 A friend of James Lee’s, Dr Robert Thornton, later claimed that Banks had given Harriet an engagement ring before he set out, and had made ‘many solemn vows’ which he now callously reneged on. In Thornton’s view it was the alluring women of Tahiti, with their free sexual practices, who had corrupted Banks’s feelings and destroyed his morals. ‘Some people are ill-natured enough to say that, vitiated in his taste by seeing the elegant women of Otaheite, who must indeed have something very peculiar in their natures to captivate such a man, upon his return, Mr Banks came indeed to see the young lady and the plants; but she found her lover now preferred a flower, or even a butterfly, to her superior charms.’ For Harriet the three-year wait ended in ‘a most mortifying disappointment’.70
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