“Richard Holmes's account of the Romantic-era scientific revolution — Banks, Davy, Herschel, Shelley — when science was still entangled with poetry and natural philosophy. Collison sees this as one of history's underappreciated acceleration episodes.”
“Discussed on Marginal Revolution as an example of the kind of history of science Cowen finds most useful — not a narrative of triumphant discovery but an account of how aesthetic sensibility, risk, and cross-disciplinary borrowing shaped what got investigated. The romantic scientists in Holmes's book are recognizable to Cowen as a type he values.”
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