Nineteenth century science : a selection of original texts

著者

• Weber, A. S. (Alan S.)

書誌事項

Nineteenth century science : a selection of original texts

edited and introduced by A.S. Weber

Broadview Press, c2000

タイトル別名

19th century science : an anthology

注記

Includes indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Nineteenth-Century Science is a science anthology which provides over 30 selections from original 19th-century scientific monographs, textbooks and articles written by such authors as Charles Darwin, Mary Somerville, J.W. Goethe, John Dalton, Charles Lyell and Hermann von Helmholtz. The volume surveys scientific discovery and thought from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of evolution of 1809 to the isolation of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Each selection opens with a biographical introduction, situating each scientist and discovery within the context of history and culture of the period. Each entry is also followed by a list of further suggested reading on the topic. A broad range of technical and popular material has been included, from Mendeleev's detailed description of the periodic table to Faraday's highly accessible lecture for young people on chemistry of a burning candle. The anthology will be of interest to the general reader who would like to explore in detail the scientific, cultural, and intellectual development of the nineteenth-century, as well as to students and teachers who specialize in the science, literature, history, or sociology of the period. The book provides examples from all the disciplines of western science-chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy, biology, evolutionary theory, etc. The majority of the entries consist of complete, unabridged journal articles or book chapters from original 19th-century scientific texts.

目次

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction BENJAMIN BANNEKER Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania Almanack, 1783 Banneker's New-Jersey Almanac, 1795 XAVIER BICHAT Physiological Researches on Life and Death WILLIAM PALEY Natural Theology ERASMUS DARWIN The Temple of Nature JOHN DALTON A New System of Chemical Philosophy JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK Zoological Philosophy JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE Theory of Colours ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT The Island of Cuba CHARLES BABBAGE Reflections on the Decline of Science in England CHARLES LYELL Principles of Geology MARY FAIRFAX SOMERVILLE On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences THEODOR SCHWANN Microscopical Researches NIKOLAI IVANOVICH LOBACHEVSKY Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels ROBERT CHAMBERS Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation GEORGE COMBE The Constitution of Man WILLIAM WHEWELL The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences HERBERT SPENCER Social Statics AUGUSTE COMTE The Positive Philosophy CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN Origin of Species Descent of Man LOUIS PASTEUR "Infusorian Animalcules Living Without Free Oxygen" "Experiments Related to Spontaneous Generation" MICHAEL FARADAY Chemical History of a Candle FRIEDRICH MAX MUELLER The Science of Language HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ "On the Conservation of Force" JAMES CLERK MAXWELL "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" CLAUDE BERNARD Introduction a I'etude de la medecine experimentale JOSEPH LISTER "On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery" SIR FRANCIS GALTON Hereditary Genius JOHN TYNDALL The Belfast Address WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN "Review of Evidence Regarding the Physical Condition of the Earth" DMITRII IVANOVICH MENDELEEV "The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements" WILLIAM JAMES The Principles of Psychology THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Evolution and Ethics WILHELM CONRAD ROENTGEN "On a New Kind of Rays" MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE "The Discovery of Radium" GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Feeding Acorns ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" The Wonderful Century Index of Names Index of Topics

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA4853755X
• ISBN:
  • 1551111659
• 出版国コード: cn
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Peterborough, Ont.
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 500 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 509.034
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Science -- History -- 19th century