Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007149520 (0007149522)
ASIN: 0007149522
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Pantheon, 2008
Pages no: 380
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Science,
Technology,
Popular Science,
Philosophy,
History Of Science,
18th Century,
Historical
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Este es un gran libro, no solo porque esta fantasticamente bien escrito sino también porque entrelaza de manera maravillosa la parte informativa con la narrativa. Además de contar las biografías de un puñado de ilustrados de la época (siglos XVIII y XIX) y su contexto, se describen las consecuencias...
List of illustrationsPrologue--The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceEpilogueCast ListBibliographyReferencesAcknowledgementsIndex
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