Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology
Nineteenth-Century Science is a science anthology which provides over 30 selections from original 19th-century scientific monographs, textbooks and articles written by such authors as Charles Darwin, Mary Somerville, J.W. Goethe, John Dalton, Charles Lyell and Hermann von Helmholtz. The volume surveys scientific discovery and thought from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution of 1809 to the isolation of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Each selection opens with a biographical introduction, situating each scientist and discovery within the context of history and culture of the period. Each entry is also followed by a list of further suggested reading on the topic. A broad range of technical and popular material has been included, from Mendeleev’s detailed description of the periodic table to Faraday’s highly accessible lecture for young people on the chemistry of a burning candle.

The anthology will be of interest to the general reader who would like to explore in detail the scientific, cultural, and intellectual development of the nineteenth-century, as well as to students and teachers who specialize in the science, literature, history, or sociology of the period. The book provides examples from all the disciplines of western science-chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, etc. The majority of the entries consist of complete, unabridged journal articles or book chapters from original 19th-century scientific texts.

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Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology
Nineteenth-Century Science is a science anthology which provides over 30 selections from original 19th-century scientific monographs, textbooks and articles written by such authors as Charles Darwin, Mary Somerville, J.W. Goethe, John Dalton, Charles Lyell and Hermann von Helmholtz. The volume surveys scientific discovery and thought from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution of 1809 to the isolation of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Each selection opens with a biographical introduction, situating each scientist and discovery within the context of history and culture of the period. Each entry is also followed by a list of further suggested reading on the topic. A broad range of technical and popular material has been included, from Mendeleev’s detailed description of the periodic table to Faraday’s highly accessible lecture for young people on the chemistry of a burning candle.

The anthology will be of interest to the general reader who would like to explore in detail the scientific, cultural, and intellectual development of the nineteenth-century, as well as to students and teachers who specialize in the science, literature, history, or sociology of the period. The book provides examples from all the disciplines of western science-chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, etc. The majority of the entries consist of complete, unabridged journal articles or book chapters from original 19th-century scientific texts.

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Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology

Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology

Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology

Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology

Overview

Nineteenth-Century Science is a science anthology which provides over 30 selections from original 19th-century scientific monographs, textbooks and articles written by such authors as Charles Darwin, Mary Somerville, J.W. Goethe, John Dalton, Charles Lyell and Hermann von Helmholtz. The volume surveys scientific discovery and thought from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution of 1809 to the isolation of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Each selection opens with a biographical introduction, situating each scientist and discovery within the context of history and culture of the period. Each entry is also followed by a list of further suggested reading on the topic. A broad range of technical and popular material has been included, from Mendeleev’s detailed description of the periodic table to Faraday’s highly accessible lecture for young people on the chemistry of a burning candle.

The anthology will be of interest to the general reader who would like to explore in detail the scientific, cultural, and intellectual development of the nineteenth-century, as well as to students and teachers who specialize in the science, literature, history, or sociology of the period. The book provides examples from all the disciplines of western science-chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, etc. The majority of the entries consist of complete, unabridged journal articles or book chapters from original 19th-century scientific texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781551111650
Publisher: Broadview Press
Publication date: 03/10/2000
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

A.S. Weber of The State University of New York at Binhamton is also the author of Women Almanac Writers and of scholarly articles on such writers as Christina Rossetti and Matthew Arnold.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

  1. BENJAMIN BANNEKER
    Benjamin Banneker’s Pennsylvania Almanack, 1783
    Banneker’s New-Jersey Almanac, 1795
  2. XAVIER BICHAT
    Physiological Researches on Life and Death
  3. WILLIAM PALEY
    Natural Theology
  4. ERASMUS DARWIN
    The Temple of Nature
  5. JOHN DALTON
    A New System of Chemical Philosophy
  6. JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK
    Zoological Philosophy
  7. JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
    Theory of Colours
  8. ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
    The Island of Cuba
  9. CHARLES BABBAGE
    Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
  10. CHARLES LYELL
    Principles of Geology
  11. MARY FAIRFAX SOMERVILLE
    On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
  12. THEODOR SCHWANN
    Microscopical Researches
  13. NIKOLAI IVANOVICH LOBACHEVSKY
    Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
  14. ROBERT CHAMBERS
    Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
  15. GEORGE COMBE
    The Constitution of Man
  16. WILLIAM WHEWELL
    The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
  17. HERBERT SPENCER
    Social Statics
  18. AUGUSTE COMTE
    The Positive Philosophy
  19. CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN
    Origin of Species
    Descent of Man
  20. LOUIS PASTEUR
    “Infusorian Animalcules Living Without Free Oxygen”
    “Experiments Related to Spontaneous Generation”
  21. MICHAEL FARADAY
    Chemical History of a Candle
  22. FRIEDRICH MAX MÜLLER
    The Science of Language
  23. HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ
    “On the Conservation of Force”
  24. JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
    “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field”
  25. CLAUDE BERNARD
    Introduction à I’étude de la médecine expérimentale
  26. JOSEPH LISTER
    “On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery”
  27. SIR FRANCIS GALTON
    Hereditary Genius
  28. JOHN TYNDALL
    The Belfast Address
  29. WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN
    “Review of Evidence Regarding the Physical Condition of the Earth”
  30. DMITRII IVANOVICH MENDELEEV
    “The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements”
  31. WILLIAM JAMES
    The Principles of Psychology
  32. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
    Evolution and Ethics
  33. WILHELM CONRAD RÖNTGEN
    “On a New Kind of Rays”
  34. MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE
    “The Discovery of Radium”
  35. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
    Feeding Acorns
  36. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
    “On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type”
    The Wonderful Century

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Index of Topics

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