The Age of Wonder: How the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of Science is a 2008 popular science book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes. In it, the author describes the scientific discoveries of the polymaths of the late eighteenth century, and describes how this period formed the basis for modern scientific discoveries. It won the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
Holmes 在这部杰出的知识史中，霍尔姆斯点燃了两个能量来源：对科学的好奇和诗意的创造力，重建了一段辉煌的时期——大约200年前，威廉•赫舌尔、汉弗莱•戴维和约瑟夫•班克斯等人为科学工作注入了“新的想象力和激情”，科学上的突破让柯勒律治和济慈等文学巨人非常激动，他们在其中看到了为人类谋福利的经验主义基础。