The Age of Wonder

This history follows British science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when exploration, astronomy, and chemistry were bound up with Romantic writing. Holmes centres on Joseph Banks and Pacific voyaging, William and Caroline Herschel and the mapping of the sky, and Humphry Davy's chemistry and public lectures, with Coleridge, the Shelleys, and other writers at the edges. The book treats discovery as a cultural event as well as a technical one. It is a group portrait of an age of science, not a textbook and not a single biography.

Bound in grey cloth, blocked with a typographic design in white by Marcus Leis Allion.