Progress: 12 down, 1 abandoned, 8 to go (list) Which: The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes I like this sort of storytelling: regularly deep-diving into this or that topic with historical-context mile-markers. It was interesting to realize Darwin’s Origin alone didn’t knock out the six-days story, but that John Banks & co. had been delivering a series of nice stunners for decades beforehand. Humphry Davy’s uh experimenting with nitrous oxide had me rolling. Scientifically dissecting getting high. It’s not like he (and his subjects) knew that’s what would follow, but still.

Progress: 12 down, 1 abandoned, 8 to go (list)

Which: The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes

I like this sort of storytelling: regularly deep-diving into this or that topic with historical-context mile-markers. It was interesting to realize Darwin’s Origin alone didn’t knock out the six-days story, but that John Banks & co. had been delivering a series of nice stunners for decades beforehand.

Humphry Davy’s uh experimenting with nitrous oxide had me rolling. Scientifically dissecting getting high. It’s not like he (and his subjects) knew that’s what would follow, but still.

13 Jun 2010   2 notes   [ books reading 20 by June my photos ]
  1. tiffehr said: When we were talking books yesterday, I forgot to mention a book series in line with your “age of wonder” reading time period: Harry Thompson’s “This Thing of Darkness” (amzn.to/bfoYzw). It’s probably my favorite book of the last two years.
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