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Visions of science : books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age / James A. Secord.
LIBRA Q127.G4 S44 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Secord, James A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientific literature--History--19th century.
- Scientific literature.
- Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- Science.
- Historiography.
- Science in popular culture.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Books and reading.
- Science in popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Science--Great Britain--Historiography.
- Science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Science--Historiography.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Fantastic voyages : Humphry Davy's Consolations in travel
- The economy of intelligence : Charles Babbage's Reflections on the decline of science in England
- The conduct of everyday life : John Herschel's Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy
- Mathematics for the million? : Mary Somerville's On the connexion of the physical sciences
- A philosophy for a new science : Charles Lyell's Principles of geology
- The problem of mind : George Combe's Constitution of man
- The torch of science : Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226203287
- 022620328X
- OCLC:
- 874729231
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