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A treasury of scientific prose : a nineteenth-century anthology

Title
A treasury of scientific prose : a nineteenth-century anthology / edited by Howard Mumford Jones and I. Bernard Cohen with the assistance of Everett Mendelsohn.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, 1963.

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Additional Authors
  • Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980
  • Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003
  • Mendelsohn, Everett
Description
vi, 372 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Science
  • sciences (philosophy)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. Natural theology: Natural theology / William Paley -- The hand as evincing design / Charles Bell -- Argument in favor of design / Charles Babbage -- 2. Astronomy: The Christian revelation viewed in connexion with the modern astronomy / Thomas Chalmers -- Outlines of astronomy / John Herschel -- 3. The physical sciences: On the constitution of bodies / John Dalton -- On some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity / Humphry Davy -- On the chemical history of a candle / Michael Faraday -- On matter, living force and heat / James Prescott Joule -- 4. Geology: Illustrations of the Huttonian theory / John Playfair -- Methods of theorizing in geology / Charles Lyell -- 5. Biology: Remarks on active molecules / Robert Brown -- Hypothesis of the development of the vegetable and animal kingdoms / Robert Chambers -- The anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine arts / Charles Bell -- 6. Science: its organization and support: Objects and plans of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / William Vernon Harcourt -- Of the transformation of the hypotheses in the history of science / William Whewell -- 7. The new age: On Faraday's lines of force / James Clerk Maxwell -- On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection / Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
LCCN
62010533
OCLC
  • ocm00520220
  • 520220
  • SCSB-255088
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library