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National Book Critics Circle Honor, Nonfiction, 2010 The Time of Think about is a vibrant and absolutely absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth hundred years gave delivery to the Intimate Age of Research. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to find Paradise. Encouraged by the clinical ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist acquired sailed with Captain Make searching for new worlds. Other voyages of discovery-astronomical, chemical type, poetical, philosophical-swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who permanently changed the general public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas tests revolutionized chemistry; and of the fantastic Romantic authors, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who have been inspired by the clinical breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era where we first came to the realization both awe-inspiring and the terrifying likelihood of science-an time whose consequences are around still.
