This brilliantly conceived and executed narrative can banish any notion you have that science history is dull or irrelevant. National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Richard Holmes earned his international reputation as a biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, but these creative excavations led him deep into the story of pre-Darwinian British science. The Age of Wonder renders its story mainly through the lives of three seminal scientists: astronomers William and Caroline Herschel and self-made chemist Humphry Davy. Holmes's engaging narrative cuts through centuries, lifting readers into the lives of scientists who followed their imaginations.