Product Description: Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even reconstruct the extinct creature it came from with infallible certainty—“Show me the bone, and I will describe the animal!” Paleontologists such as Georges Cuvier and Richard Owen were heralded as scientific virtuosos, sometimes even veritable wizards, capable of resurrecting the denizens of an ancient past from a mere glance at a fragmentary bone...read more

Product Description: John Tyndall was one of the most influential scientists of the nineteenth century. His correspondents read like a ‘who’s who’ of international science and include: Charles Babbage, Louis Pasteur and Bertrand Russell. Published serially with two volumes per year, this scholarly edition will ultimately present over 7,000 of his letters...read more

Product Description: Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who, in the wake of The Origin of Species, wrested cultural authority from the old Anglican establishment while installing themselves as a new professional scientific elite...read more

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