Visions of science
Subtitle: books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age
By: James A. Secord
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780226203287; 9780226203317
Subjects: Science; Historiography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fantastic voyages: Humphry Davy's Consolations in Travel; title: The economy of intelligence: Charles Babbage's Reflections on the Decline of Science in England; title: The conduct of everyday life: John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy; title: Mathematics for the million? Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences; title: A philosophy for a new science: Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology; title: The problem of mind: George Combe's Constitution of Man; title: The torch of science: Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus; title: Epilogue.