Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833, Volume 1Tim Fulford Taylor & Francis, 2002 - 317 pages |
Contents
Astronomy | 1 |
PART | 9 |
The geological age of reptiles 205 | 13 |
Extract from A Discourse on the Studies of the University 192 | 14 |
A letter from William Herschel Esq F R S to Sir Joseph Banks Bart | 16 |
PART | 17 |
PART | 19 |
Michael Faradays glassmaking experiments | 20 |
Pamphlets on vaccination | 131 |
Extracts from Organic Remains of a Former World | 137 |
On the constitution of pure elastic fluids and On | 138 |
On the comparative health of the British Navy 17791814 with | 157 |
Extracts from The Manufacturing Population of England | 159 |
The Bakerian lecture On the elementary particles of certain | 169 |
Reviews of Essay on the Theory of the Earth | 173 |
On the firedamp of coalmines and on methods of lighting | 178 |
PART | 22 |
Recommendations of the Committees with Notices | 31 |
Iron and steel manufacture | 33 |
Geology and paleontology 121 | 35 |
Catalogue of a second thousand of new nebulae and clusters | 40 |
The Bakerian lecture On some new phenomena of chemical | 41 |
And several appearances | 44 |
Botany | 47 |
Extract from Reflections on the Revolution in France | 53 |
Extract from Experiments and Observations on Different | 59 |
Extract from Experiments upon Vegetables | 64 |
Extract from A Sketch or Short Description of Dr Grahams | 69 |
Extract from The Celestial Beds Or A Review of the Votaries | 71 |
Lines suggested by the Third Meeting of the British | 74 |
Extracts from The Elements of Medicine of John Brown M D | 81 |
Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam Engines and | 83 |
Mensuration and instruments | 93 |
PART 10 | 94 |
An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables | 95 |
PART 18 | 96 |
Preface to the first edition of The Morbid Anatomy of Some | 99 |
Extract from Hygeia | 107 |
Exploration | 112 |
Extract from Good Tidings or News from the Farm | 114 |
On Davys Bakerian lecture | 118 |
Communications on vaccination | 123 |
PART 11 | 125 |
Extract from An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System | 128 |
A Tale of Paraguay | 182 |
Extracts from The Origins and Progress of the Malignant | 191 |
Extracts from Reliquiae Diluvianae | 192 |
Heat | 195 |
Extracts from A Plain and Rational Account of the Nature | 203 |
An inquiry concerning the source of the heat which is excited | 206 |
Cambridge in June 1833 | 217 |
Extracts from The Lectures of J B de Mainauduc | 219 |
Extracts from Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry | 221 |
The races of humankind craniology physiognomy phrenology | 223 |
On deductive habits or on the impression produced on mens | 237 |
Light | 239 |
Extract from An Account of the Regular Gradation in | 243 |
Electricity electrochemistry galvanism and magnetism | 247 |
Description of the underground inclined plane executed | 255 |
Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this | 262 |
Richard Arkwrights spinning jenny Samuel Cromptons mule | 273 |
Account of the new electrical or galvanic apparatus | 276 |
Index | 281 |
Extract from Outlines of the Physiognomical System of | 286 |
Chlorine bleaching | 291 |
Experiments on the effect of a current of electricity on | 294 |
On fluid chlorine | 298 |
Hammermill | 304 |
Extracts from The craniologists review | 305 |
PART 12 | 310 |
Extract from Magnetism and electricity | 314 |
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