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Visions of science : books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age

Title: Visions of science : books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age / James A. Secord.
Author: Secord, James A.
Publication: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

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Description

xiii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-292) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Fantastic voyages : Humphry Davy's Consolations in travel -- The economy of intelligence : Charles Babbage's Reflections on the decline of science in England -- The conduct of everyday life : John Herschel's Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy -- Mathematics for the million? : Mary Somerville's On the connexion of the physical sciences -- A philosophy for a new science : Charles Lyell's Principles of geology -- The problem of mind : George Combe's Constitution of man -- The torch of science : Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 15-5677

ISBN

9780226203287
022620328X
9780226203317 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014010721

OCLC

874729231

Author

Secord, James A., author.

Title

Visions of science : books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age / James A. Secord.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-292) and index.

Chronological Term

1800 - 1899

Research Call Number

JFE 15-5677

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