Science in the romantic era / David M. Knight.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Collected studies ; CS615.
Main Author: Knight, David M.
Language:English
Published: Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, [1998], ©1998.
Series:Collected studies ; CS615.
Subjects:
Science > History > 18th centyry.
Science > History > 19th century.
Science > History > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The history of science in Britain: a personal view
  • Background and foreground: getting things in context
  • The scientist as sage
  • Romanticism and the sciences
  • Steps towards a dynamical chemistry
  • The physical science and the Romantic Movement
  • Chemistry, physiology and materialism in the Romantic period
  • "Conquering the prejudice adopted from the French school of chemistry": the science in Britain in Gay-Lussac's time
  • Science and professionalism in England, 1770-1830
  • Agriculture and chemistry in Britain around 1800
  • Tyrannies of distance in British science
  • The application of Enlightened philosophy: Banks and the physical sciences
  • A note on sumptuous natural histories
  • Scientific theory and visual language
  • William Swainson: types, circles and affinities
  • William Swainson: naturalist, author and illustrator
  • Ordering the world
  • Pictures, diagrams and symbols: visual language in nineteenth-century chemistry
  • Accomplishment or dogma: chemistry in the introductory works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes
  • Lavoisier; discovery, interpretation and revolution
  • Words that make worlds
  • From science to wisdom: Humphry Davy's life
  • Getting science across
  • Science and culture in Mid-Victorian Britain: The reviews and William Crookes' Quarterly Journal of Science
  • Observation, experiment, theory - and the spirits
  • Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930): scientism and scepticism.