The Age Of Wonder How The Romantic Generation Discovered The Beauty And Terror Of Science
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The Age Of Wonder
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-07-14
The Age Of Wonder written by Richard Holmes and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-14 with Science categories.
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing 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. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards.
The Age Of Wonder
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Age Of Wonder written by Richard Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Discoveries in science categories.
The Age Of Wonder
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Age Of Wonder written by Richard Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Great Britain categories.
This biography charts the birth of modern science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through the lives of several notable scientists. The author focuses on botanist, Joseph Banks, astronomers William and Caroline Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy. He reveals how great ideas and experiments are born, how intense relationships are broken by research and how religious faith and scientific truth collide.
Measuring The Cosmos
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Author : David H. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
Measuring The Cosmos written by David H. Clark and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Science categories.
Humans have always viewed the heavens with wonder and awe. The skies have inspired reflection on the vastness of space, the wonder of creation, and humankind's role in the universe. In just over one hundred years, science has moved from almost total ignorance about the actual distances to the stars and earth's place in the galaxy to our present knowledge about the enormous size, mass, and age of the universe. We are reaching the limits of observation, and therefore the limits of human understanding. Beyond lies only our imagination, seeded by the theories of physics. In Measuring the Cosmos, science writers David and Matthew Clark tell the stories of both the well-known and the unsung heroes who played key roles in these discoveries. These true accounts reveal ambitions, conflicts, failures, as well as successes, as the astonishing scale and age of the universe were finally established. Few areas of scientific research have witnessed such drama in the form of ego clashes, priority claims, or failed (or even falsified) theories as that resulting from attempts to measure the universe. Besides giving credit where long overdue, Measuring the Cosmos explains the science behind these achievements in accessible language sure to appeal to astronomers, science buffs, and historians.
What Do You Know About Earth
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Author : Carmen Bredeson
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Release Date : 2008-01-01
What Do You Know About Earth written by Carmen Bredeson and has been published by Enslow Publishers, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Introduces early readers to subjects about space in Q&A format"--Provided by publisher.
Young Romantics
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Author : Daisy Hay
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-05-03
Young Romantics written by Daisy Hay and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-03 with History categories.
A striking literary biography by a significant and talented young writer
A Most Amazing Scene Of Wonders
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Author : James Delbourgo
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2006-10-15
A Most Amazing Scene Of Wonders written by James Delbourgo and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-15 with History categories.
"The first book to situate early American experimental science in the context of a transatlantic public sphere, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders offers a view of the origins of American science and the cultural meaning of the American Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.
Quality Beyond Six Sigma
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Author : Ron Basu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06-14
Quality Beyond Six Sigma written by Ron Basu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Six Sigma is a data-driven management system with near-perfect performance that is a statistical target of operating with no more that 3.4 defects per one million chances. Six sigma has both created avid interest and raised concerns among executives and its practioners. This is all very well for multinationals like Motorola or General Electric but how can it help small and medium-sized enterprises or the service industry? How do you ensure that solutions stick? Quality Beyond Six Sigma responds to this challenge and provides a practical implementation of the issues of Six Sigma, Lean Enterprise and Total Quality and aligns the 'hard' sigma message with the softer sustainable 'strategic issues'. The result is FIT SIGMA. The authors utilize major and minor case studies to support principles and learnings of FIT SIGMA and include review examples and self-assessment that underpin the sustainable process. The three major case studies are contributed by General Electric, Dow Chemical and Seagate Technology. Senior Executives and Managers of organizations of all types and sizes, Management Consultants and Students of all disciplines will find this book a stimulating guide to quality and operational excellence.
Time Nature S Wonders
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Author : Matthew McCann Fenton
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2008
Time Nature S Wonders written by Matthew McCann Fenton and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bodies of water categories.
Colorful photographs and text explore landmark locations and scientific discoveries within the Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere; with chapters on visual phenomena, mangrove swamps, icebergs, caves, and more.
Falling Upwards
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Author : Richard Holmes
language : en
Publisher: HarperPress
Release Date : 2014-05-12
Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and has been published by HarperPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-12 with History categories.
FALLING UPWARDS is a vivid group biography and adventure that tells how men and women first felt as they rose towards the clouds into a new dimension - of science, exploration, warfare, literature, discovery.Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard; the revelatory ascents over sprawling Victorian industrial cities of Northern Europe; and the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise, and the French photographer Felix Nadar. Later we find balloons used to observe the horrors of battle during the American Civil War (including a memorable flight by General Custer); the tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during the Prussian siege of 1870; and the terrifying seven mile high flight - without oxygen - of James Glaisher, helping to establish the science of meteorology and the environmental notion of a 'fragile' planet. Readers will also discover the writers - from Mary Shelley to Edgar Alan Poe, Dickens to Verne - who allowed the imaginative impact of flight to soar in their work. In exploring the interplay between technology and science fiction, the understanding of the biosphere, and the metaphysics of flight itself, Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavour, recklessness and vision.
