Webrichard holmes designates the “romantic age of science” as the age of wonder, but what of wonder before the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

When young joseph banks stepped onto a tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover paradise.

For over two thousand years before holmes’ “romantic generation,” pagan then christian thinkers viewed wonder as […]

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