This book (2008) has wonder in the title and is wonderful to read. Richard Holmes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Holmes_(biographer) is a biographer to trade and married to novelist Rose Tremain. This was his first major work of biography in over a decade. Holmes immerses us into the world where the Romantic spirit was being thrilled by the discoveries of science […]
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A long time ago my Grandfather presented me with a hardback copy of Cosmos (1980, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0394502949/ref=sr_1_1_twi_har_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517153106&sr=1-1&keywords=cosmos+sagan) by Carl Sagan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan), the great American popularizer of science and cosmology. With over 250 full-colour illustrations, many of them never before published, it was based on the author’s thirteen-part television series. I was mesmerised and spent many hours
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