The History Bookshelf http://innovationwatch.com Rethinking the future Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:46:30 +0000 en hourly 1 Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King. By Brad Matsen. Pantheon Books. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/intellicosm/newbooks/~3/FB1zBnoMows/ http://innovationwatch.com/jacques-cousteau-the-sea-king-by-brad-matsen-pantheon-books-12991/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:05 +0000 iw http://innovationwatch.com/?p=12991 Vividly conveying the people, the adventure, the science, and the lure of the sea that shaped Cousteau’s life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we view, and treat, our planet. … Read more

]]> http://innovationwatch.com/jacques-cousteau-the-sea-king-by-brad-matsen-pantheon-books-12991/feed/ 0 http://innovationwatch.com/jacques-cousteau-the-sea-king-by-brad-matsen-pantheon-books-12991/ The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. By Richard Holmes. Pantheon Books. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/intellicosm/newbooks/~3/cfsCMsR7B4c/ http://innovationwatch.com/the-age-of-wonder-how-the-romantic-generation-discovered-the-beauty-and-terror-of-science-by-richard-holmes-pantheon-books/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:51:00 +0000 iw http://innovationwatch.com/?p=8775 Brilliantly conceived as a relay of scientific stories, The Age of Wonder investigates the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of “dynamic science,” of an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel and his sister Caroline, whose dedication to the study of the stars forever changed the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way, and the meaning of the universe; and Humphry Davy, who, with only a grammar school education stunned the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments that led to the invention of the miners’ lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe. This age of exploration extended to great writers and poets as well as scientists, all creators relishing in moments of high exhilaration, boundary-pushing and discovery.

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