Welcome to Litsy!

I waited 14 years to read this not-difficult book. Sigh.

This tries to capture a transitional era in the sciences, ~1800, when science and the arts were closely linked and science was a wide-open field for adventure, but was also becoming formalized, and a far more stringent field. (The steampunk era? 🙂) But Holmes approach is pure biography (of people instead of ideas). I was entertained. This is an easy, wonderful listen.

My new audiobook, selected to carry me far away from the daily catastrophic news. Three hours there is a whole lot on 18th-century botanist Joseph Banks.

Loved this book! Fascinating snapshot of the Romantic Age and the intertwined worlds of Art and Science, at a time when science still posessed an almost magical quality, with all the beauty and promise - but also terror - that entails. #legoexplorers

For @Cinfhen , @TrishB & anyone else struggling with #regency #jennyis30

The list is still growing as I'm still tagging books on LibraryThing!

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CAroline Herschel- you go, girl! Absolutely nailed it.

It literally sparkles!!!✨✨ #foliosociety

Happy mail! Right out of the shipping box!! #foliosociety #nosuchthingastoomanybooks

Excellent audio book about the ways poetry, culture, and science influence each other. The biographies of the Romantic scientists read like real life romance novels, and I have been unable to stop thinking about the ideas in this book.

#TBRtemptation post 1! This has high marks on GR, and a biography of the "second scientific revolution", occurring between Cook's 1768 circumnavigation & Darwin's 1831 Beagle journey. From Joseph Banks' advances in botany, to Herschels in astronomy, the Montgolfier Brothers with flying (balloons specifically), Mungo Park's Africa expeditions, Humphrey Davy with gases (making mining safer), and don't forget Frankenstein. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?

Comprehensive, in a good way. Holmes is as brilliant as the scientists he profiles.