John Herschel's establishment of an observatory inĬape Town to catalogue the stars of the southern hemisphere in 1833. It opens in 1769, with Joseph Banks traveling to
Holmes bookends his narrative with voyages of discovery. William Lawrence had dismissed in his lectures as a ‘hypothesis or fiction.’ Indeed, it was to be an utterly new form of fiction – the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: “Mary’s brilliance was to see that these weighty and often alarming ideas could be given highly suggestive, imaginative and even playful form. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, said he attended Humphry Davy’s lectures “to enlarge my stock of metaphors.” Davy, Mungo Park and the Arctic explorer Newton, by “unweav the rainbow”, of reducing it “to the dull catalogue of common things.” Another Romantic poet, On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, compares his first encounter with Homer’s poetry to Herschel’sĭiscovery of Uranus: “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into his ken.” Holmes writes that “Among other things, Keats had combined science and poetry in a new and intensely exciting way.” (207) Keats would express negative feelings about science in “ A recurring theme of the book is the relation between science and poetry in the Romantic era. He also describes the relationships between the scientists of that time, and the early days of the Holmes focuses particularly on the lives and works of National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, and the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, the 2009 Holmes, a literary biographer, also looks at the influence of science on the arts in the Polymaths of the late eighteenth century and how this period formed the basis for modern scientific discoveries.
In it, the author describes the scientific discoveries of the The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008
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