Having recently read _The Age of Wonder_, about British science in its overlap with the Romantic period in literature, I have to say that a lot of authors and p

Having recently read _The Age of Wonder_, about British science in its overlap with the Romantic period in literature, I have to say that a lot of authors and publishers seem to imagine that _any_ book will be read with the attention commonly given to popular fiction--not much. Lots and lots of sloppy stuff.