The Age Of Wonder | Books | A.V. Club.
Looks like an interesting book, about the inter-relatedness of 19th century science and poetry/literature.
Read another review in Time Magazine, the book really does sound fascinating, will have to get it – it describes a time when scientists had huge fan followings. It sounds weird these days, but scientists’ creativity was admired and considered to be very similar to that of the writers and poets of the time, and many of them hung out together. Most of all, the book seems to describe a certain awe that people had not just for scientists, but for science, probably due to how quickly it seemed to progress at the time. But I’ll have to read the book to get the details.