Tables of Contents for Romanticism and Science, 1773-1833

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Acknowledgements

xxi

General Introduction

PART 1 Science and politics

150

Extract from Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Extract from Essay on the Public Merits of Mr Pitt

Thomas Beddoes

Extract from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Joseph Priestley

Extracts from Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe

John Robison

PART 2 Medicine

Extract from A Sketch, or Short Description of Dr Graham's Medical Apparatus

James Graham

Extract from The Celestial Beds; Or, A Review of the Votaries of the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and the Temple of Hymen, Pall Mall

James Graham

Extract from Medical Transactions at the Temple of Health

James Graham

Extracts from The Elements of Medicine of John Brown, M.D.

John Brown

Thomas Beddoes

Preface to the first edition of The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body

Matthew Baillie

Extracts from An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

103

Edward Jenner

Extract from Hygeia

107

Thomas Beddoes

Extract from Good Tidings; or, News from the Farm

114

Robert Bloomfield

Communications on vaccination

123

James Anderson

Pamphlets on vaccination

131

The Edinburgh Review

On the comparative health of the British Navy 1779-1814, with proposals for its further improvement

157

Gilbert Blane

A Tale of Paraguay

182

Robert Southey

Extract from An Essay on the Epidemic Cholera of India

183

Reginald Orton

Extracts from The Origins and Progress of the Malignant Cholera in Manchester

191

Henry Gaulter

PART 3 Mesmerism

201

Extracts from A Plain and Rational Account of the Nature' and Effects of Animal Magnetism

203

J. Pearson

Extracts from `On popular illusions, and particularly of medical demonology'

208

John Ferriar

Extract from The Key to Physic

213

Ebeneezer Sibly

Extracts from The Lectures of J. B. de Mainauduc

219

J. R. De Mainauduc

Animal magnetism

224

Thomas De Quincey

PART 4 Electricity, electro-chemistry, galvanism and magnetism

247

Extracts from The Desideratum; or; Electricity Made Plain and Useful

249

John Wesley

Extracts from The Botanic Garden. A Poem in Two Parts

253

Erasmus Darwin

On the electricity excited by the mere contact of conducting substances of different kinds

258

Alessandro Volta

Account of the new electrical or galvanic apparatus

276

Anthony Carlisle

William Nicholson

An account of the experiments performed

286

J. Aldini

Giovanni Aldini

Experiments on the effect of a current of electricity on the magnetic needle

294

J. C. Oersted

On fluid chlorine

298

Michael Faraday

On the electro-motive force of magnetism

302

Signori Nobili

Antinori

Michael Faraday

Extract from `Magnetism and electricity'

314

John Herschel

PART 5 Chemistry

194

Extracts from `Observations on different kinds of air'

Joseph Priestley

`The mouse's petition' and `An inventory of the furniture in Dr. Priestley's study'

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Experiments on air

Henry Cavendish

Introduction to Essay on Phlogiston and the Constitution of Acids, and Mr Lavoisier's note on the introduction

Richard Kirwan

Preface to Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order Containing All the Modern Discoveries

Antoine Lavoisier

Extracts from Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide

Humphry Davy

The sons of genius

Humphry Davy

The Bakerian lecture `On some chemical agencies of electricity'

Humphry Davy

The Bakerian lecture `On some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity'

Humphry Davy

On Davy's Bakerian lecture

118

The Monthly Review

Review of Humphry Davy's 1807 Bakerian lecture

121

Henry Brougham

Extract from An Attempt to Establish a Pure Scientific System of Mineralogy

128

J. J. Berzelius

`On the constitution of pure elastic fluids' and `On the constitution of mixed elastic fluids'

138

John Dalton

The Bakerian lecture `On the elementary particles of certain crystals'

169

W.H. Wollaston

On the fire-damp of coal-mines, and on methods of lighting the mines so as to prevent its explosion

178

Humphry Davy

PART 6 Heat

195

Extract from Dissertation upon the Philosophy of Light, Heat and Fire

197

James Hutton

An inquiry concerning the source of the heat which is excited by fiction

206

Benjamin Thompson

Count Rumford

Extracts from Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry

221

Joseph Black

PART 7 Light

239

On the nature of light and colours

240

Thomas Young

Extracts from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

256

John Herschel

PART 8 Astronomy

Account of a comet

William Herschel

A letter from William Herschel, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S. and `On the diameter and magnitude of the Georgium sidus'

William Herschel

On the means of discovering the distance, magnitude, etc. of the fixed stars...

John Michell

Extracts from `On the construction of the heavens'

William Herschel

Catalogue of a second thousand of new nebulae and clusters of stars

William Herschel

Leonard Euler

British Encyclopaedia

Extract from The Mechanism of the Heavens

Mary Somerville

PART 9 Mensuration and instruments

Description of a thermometer which marks the greatest degree of heat and cold

Alexander Keith

Eudiometry

101

British Encyclopaedia

PART 10 Women in science

105

Extracts from Introduction to Botany

107

Priscilla Wakefield

Conversations on Chemistry in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained

114

Jane Marcet

PART 11 Science and social change

135

Extract from The Excursion

137

William Wordsworth

On the employment of children in cotton mills

138

S. T. Coleridge

The treadmill

142

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

The Age Reviewed

149

Robert Montgomery

Extract from `Signs of the times'

110

Thomas Carlyle

Extracts from The Manufacturing Population of England

159

Peter Gaskell

PART 12 Institutionalisation

173

Extract from Proposals for Forming by Subscription in the Metropolis of the British Empire a Public Institution

175

Benjamin Thompson

Count Rumford

Extracts from Reflections on the Decline of Science in England and on Some of its Causes

186

Charles Babbage

Extract from A Discourse on the Studies of the University

192

Adam Sedgwick

Recommendations of the Committees with Notices of Desiderata in Science

203

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Lines suggested by the Third Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Held at Cambridge in June, 1833

217

William Sotheby

PART 13 Philosophy of science

227

Extract from A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy

229

John Herschel

On deductive habits; or, on the impression produced on men's minds by tracing the consequences of ascertained laws

237

William Whewell

PART 14 Engineering and technology

247

Account of the first aerostatic experiment made in England

249

T. Cavallo

Description of the underground inclined plane, executed at Walkden Moor in Lancashire, by his Grace the Duke of Bridgewater

255

Francis Egerton

James Brindley

263

New Biographia Britannia

An account of the application of the gas from coal to economical purposes

267

William Murdoch

Richard Arkwright's spinning jenny; Samuel Crompton's mule

273

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Extracts from `Hydrostatic press and crane'

281

Joseph Bramah

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam Engines and of their Inventors and Improvers

288

Robert Stuart

Chlorine bleaching

291

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Gas lighting

299

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Hammer-mill

304

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Engine for cutting teeth of wheels

308

Henry Maudslay

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Extracts from `Platina and its manufacture'

311

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Extracts from `Threshing machine'

316

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Richard Trevethick's locomotive engine

318

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Rainhill engine trials

319

Mechanics' Magazine

Steam engine

344

British Encyclopaedia

Extracts from An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

352

Henry Booth

Extract from Life of Thomas Telford: Menai suspension bridge

368

Thomas Telford

At Banavie

384

Robert Southey

PART 15 Manufactures

The manufacture of ships' blocks

Marc Brunel

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Cotton manufacture

British Encyclopaedia

Michael Faraday's glass-making experiments

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Iron and steel manufacture

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

PART 16 Botany

Kew Garden. A Poem in Two Cantos

Henry Jones

Extract from The Botanic Garden

Erasmus Darwin

Extracts from 'The Loves of the Triangles'

The Anti-Jacobian or Weekly Examiner

Extract from Experiments upon vegetables

Jan Ingenhousz

Playtotogia; Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening

Erasmus Darwin

An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables

Thomas Andrew Knight

Process for extracting sugar from the beet, communicated in a letter from Mr. Achard to Citizen Van Mons

101

Nicholson's Journal

Extracts from A Grammar of Botany

104

James Edward Smith

PART 17 Natural history and meteorology

115

Observations on the natural history of the cuckoo, in a letter to John Hunter Esq. F.R.A.

117

Edward Jenner

Signs of rain: An excuse for not accepting the invitation of a friend to make a country excursion

128

Edward Jenner

Extracts from An Essay on Dew: And several appearances connected with it

130

W. C. Wells

Extract from The Climate of London, Deduced from Meteorological Observations

135

Luke Howard

PART 18 Exploration

141

Extract from An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere

143

John Hawkesworth

Extract from Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World

161

J. R. Forster

Extract from An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa

177

John Barrow

Extract from Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa

186

Mungo Park

Extract from The History of Sumatra

201

William Marsden

Extracts from Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

208

Alexander Von Humboldt

PART 19 The races of humankind - craniology, physiognomy, phrenolugy

223

Extracts from Sketches of the History of Man

225

Henry Home

Lord Kames

Extracts from The Origin and Progress of Language

232

James Burnet

Lord Monboddo

Extracts from Essays on Physiognomy; fur the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind

234

J. C. Lavater

Extract from An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man and in Different Animals and Vegetables

243

Charles White

Remarks on certain strictures made on the first edition of this essay

262

Mr Charles White

Samuel Smith

Extract from Outlines of the Physiognomical System of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim

286

J. C. Spurzheim

Extract from Researches into the Physical History of Mankind

296

James Prichard

Extracts from `The craniologist's review'

305

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Extract from A System of Phrenology

312

George Combe

PART 20 Theories of life

Extract from Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables

Lazzaro Spallanzani

Extract from A Treatise of the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds

John Hunter

Extracts from Zoonomia, Or the Laws of Organic Life

Erasmus Darwin

Extracts from Introductory Lectures Exhibiting Some of Mr Hunter's Opinions Respecting Life and Diseases

John Abernethy

Extracts from Lectures on Physiologic; Zoology and the Natural History of Man

William Lawrence

PART 21 Comparative anatomy

Extract from The Works of the Late Professor Camper on the Connexion Between the Science of Anatomy and the Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary etc.

Peter Camper

Extract from A Manual of the Elements of Natural History

107

J. F. Blumenbach

Extract from The Hand, its Mechanisms and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design

112

Charles Bell

PART 22 Geology and paleontology

121

160

Extracts from `Biographical account of Dr Hutton'

123

John Playfair

Observations on the fossil bones presented to the Royal Society

129

John Hunter

Extracts from Organic Remains of a Former World

137

James Parkinson

Extracts from Essay on the Theory of the Earth

149

Georges Cuvier

Reviews of Essay on the Theory of the Earth

173

John Playfair

Extracts from Reliquiae Diluvianae

192

William Buckland

The geological age of reptiles

205

Gideon Mantell

Extracts from Principles of Geology

209

Charles Lyell

Review of Lyell's Principles of Geology

209

Charles Lyell

Index

281