Webrichard holmes designates the “romantic age of science” as the age of wonder, but what of wonder before the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? For over two thousand years before holmes’ “romantic generation,” pagan then christian thinkers viewed wonder as […] Webthe twin energies of scientific curiosity and poetic invention pulsate through this study of the romantic generation’s “second scientific revolution. ”. Webthe 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.
