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The Age of Wonder
Hardcover edition
AuthorRichard Holmes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory of Science
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date
2008
Media typePrint, e-book
Pages554 pp
ISBN978-0-00-714952-0

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008 popular biography book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes. In it, the author describes the scientific discoveries of the polymaths of the late eighteenth century and how this period formed the basis for modern scientific discoveries.[1] Holmes, a literary biographer, also looks at the influence of science on the arts in the Romantic era. The book won the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books,[2] the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, and the 2010 National Academies Communication Award.

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