Science in the Romantic Era by David Knight

Author:David Knight [Knight, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Science
ISBN: 9781317242192
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-31T01:27:13+00:00

Notes

1 H.E. Roscoe and A. Harden, A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory (London, 1896), p. 122.

2 M.J.S. Rudwick, The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (Chicago, 1985); C.A. Russell, Science and Social Change, 1700-1900 (London, 1983); D.M. Knight, The Age of Science (Oxford, 1986, new. ed. 1988).

3 J. Morrell and A. Thackray, Gentlemen of Science (Oxford, 1981); and the associated Correspondence (London, 1984); R. MacLeod and P. Collins (eds.). The Parliament of Science (London, 1981).

4 L. Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 (new ed., Harmondsworth, 1982), p. 179. I. Inkster and J. Morrell (eds.), Metropolis and Province (London, 1983); I. Inkster (ed.), The Steam Intellect Societies (Nottingham, 1985). For earlier London dominance, see P. Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660-1730 (London, 1989). On provincial geology, see H.S. Torrens, 'Arthur Aitken's Mineralogical Survey of Shropshire 1796-1816, and the Contemporary Audience for Geological Publications', British Journal for the History of Science, 16 (1983), 111-53.

5 S. Forgan, 'Context, Image and Function', British Journal for the History of Science, 19 (1986), 89-113, looks at the buildings and arrangements of scientific societies.

6 On British geology at a triumphal period, see Robert A. Stafford's paper in this volume. On Albert Gunther, see A.E. Gunther, A Century of Zoology at the British Museum (London, 1975); on an industrialist, S.E. Koss, Sir John Brunner: Radical Plutocrat, 1842-1919 (Cambridge, 1970). On Mueller, see R.W. Home's paper in this volume; it is interesting that the telescope at the Sydney Observatory came from Germany. See also A.M. Lucas, 'Baron von Mueller: Protégé turned Patron', pp. 133-52 in R.W. Home (ed.), Australian Science in the Making (Melbourne, 1988), a very useful collection of papers giving an excellent overview and some close studies.

7 Two important scientists who remained in Ireland were Lord Rosse and Hamilton; see T.L. Hankins, Sir William Rowan Hamilton (Baltimore, 1980).

8 H.B. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks (London, 1988). On Brown, D.J. Mabberley, Jupiter Botanicus (Braunschweig, 1985).

9 H. Davy, Collected Works, ed. J. Davy, Vol. 1 (London, 1839—40); H. Mayhew, The Wonders of Science, or Young Humphry Davy: The Life of a Wonderful Boy written for Boys, 2nd ed. (London, 1856).

10 T.H. Levere, 'Dr Thomas Beddoes; Science and Medicine in Politics and Society', British Journal for the History of Science, 17 (1984), 187-204; D.A. Stansfield, Thomas Beddoes (Dordrecht, 1984).

11 S. Forgan (ed.), Science and the Sons of Genius: Studies on Humphry Davy (London, 1980); my paper on fishing is on pp. 201-30.

12 D.P. Miller, 'Between Hostile Camps; Sir Humphry Davy's Presidency of the Royal Society, 1820-1827', British Journal for the History of Science, 16 (1983), 1-47. H.B. Carter (ed.), The Sheep and Wool Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1781-1820 (Sydney, 1979).

13 D. Gooding & F. James (eds.), Faraday Rediscovered (London, 1985); my paper on Davy and Faraday is on pp. 33-49.

14 A.E. Gunther, Founders of Science at the British Museum, 1753-1900 (Halesworth, 1980).

15 W.H. Flower, Essays on Museums (London, 1898); M.

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