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.
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Physical Description:xi, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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. 
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