in the name of science
SO I've been reading this book called "The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science," by Richard Holmes, about late 1700s/early 1800s science and Romanticism. And not only is it a good book, but there are some FINE looking gentlemen of science and letters in the photo sections. I had to share.
Joseph Banks, Tahitian explorer and botanist. You can't quite tell but the full page portrait in the book has him looking very intense and five-o-clock shadowed.
Humphry Davy, discoverer of potassium, frequent breather of laughing gas
Mungo Park, Scottish explorer and the first Westerner to see the Niger River. he had a very dramatic death in Africa. :/
there are also our favorite Romantics, too, I know they're probably here frequently but I didn't want to leave anyone out.
Coleridge (who actually used to huff laughing gas with Humphry Davy)
Shelley
Keats
and of course, Byron
Joseph Banks, Tahitian explorer and botanist. You can't quite tell but the full page portrait in the book has him looking very intense and five-o-clock shadowed.
Humphry Davy, discoverer of potassium, frequent breather of laughing gas
Mungo Park, Scottish explorer and the first Westerner to see the Niger River. he had a very dramatic death in Africa. :/
there are also our favorite Romantics, too, I know they're probably here frequently but I didn't want to leave anyone out.
Coleridge (who actually used to huff laughing gas with Humphry Davy)
Shelley
Keats
and of course, Byron