Richard Holmes wrote a great book called "The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science" which covers Humphry Davy

Richard Holmes wrote a great book called "The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science" which covers Humphry Davy as well as other late 18th-century/early 19th century figures such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who was a friend of Davy's and who was an amateur chemist as well as a professional poet just as Davy was the reverse).