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Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes - Book Summary
“The Romantic Age of Ballooning”
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Title: Falling Upwards
Author: Richard Holmes
Category: Science & Discovery, Culture & Society, Philosophy & Big Ideas
When you picture the first balloon flights, do you see a cute footnote before airplanes? Sam and Sophie start there, then Richard Holmes's 'Falling Upwards' blows that idea out of the sky, revealing ballooning as a cultural earthquake that turned the heavens into a stage.
They drift through the…
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