Literature and science, 1660-1834

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Literature and science, 1660-1834

general editor, Judith Hawley ; advisory editor, Akihito Suzuki

Pickering & Chatto, 2003-2004

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: [set, v. 1-4] ISBN 9781851967377

内容説明

This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.

目次

  • Part I Volume 1: Science as Polite Culture Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society (1667)
  • Robert Hooke, "The Present State of Natural Philosophy" in Posthumous Works (1705)
  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, 'The Second Evening: That The Moon Is Inhabited' in Conversations With a Lady on the Plurality of Worlds (1719)
  • John Theophilus Desaguliers, Newtonian System of the World (1728)
  • Voltaire, 'M. Voltaire to the Marchioness du Ch**' in Introduction to the Philosophy of Newton (1738)
  • Francesco Algarotti, Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy Explained (1739)
  • Henry Jones, Philosophy: A Poem addressed to the Young Ladies who Attended Mr Booth's Lectures in Dublin (1749)
  • Benjamin Martin, Biographica Philosophica (1764)
  • Joseph Priestley: 'The Preface to the First Edition' and 'Dr Franklin's Discoveries Concerning the Singularities of Lightning and Electricity' in The History of Electricity (1775)
  • Experiments and Observations Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy (1779)
  • 'Of Electricity' in Heads of Lectures On A Course of Experimental Philosophy (1794)
  • Jane Marcet, Conversations on Natural Philosophy (1819)
  • Charles Babbage, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830)
  • John Paris, The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy (1831)
  • William Whewell, on the use of the term "scientist", in 'Review of Mrs [Mary] Somerville's On The Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834) Volume 2: Sciences of Body and Mind Selections from: Abraham Cowley, 'Ode Upon Dr Harvey' in Verses, Lately Written Upon Several Occaions (1663)
  • Edward Baynard, Health, a Poem. Shewing how to procure, preserve and restore it (1740)
  • Ann Finch, 'A Pindaric Ode on the Spleen' in William Stukely's Of the Spleen, its description and history, uses and diseases, particularly the vapours, with the remedy (1723)
  • John Arbuthnot, Know Thyself (1734)
  • George Cheyne, An Essay on Regimen (1740)
  • John Armstrong, 'Air' in The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem (1808)
  • James Makittrick Adair, 'Fashionable Diseases' in Medical Cautions, for the Consideration of Invalids (1786)
  • Thomas Beddoes, 'On Individuals, Comparing our Affluent and Easy Classes', British Characteristics and Schools for Girls in Hygeia, or Essays Moral & Medical (1802)
  • Thomas Trotter, A View of the Nervous Temperament (1807) Volume 3: Earthly Powers Selections from: The Vulcano's: or, Burning and Fire-Vomiting Mountains...Collected for the Most Part out of Kircher's Subterraneous World (1669)
  • Thomas Hobbes, De Mirabilis Pecci, Being the Wonders of the Peak in Derbyshire, commonly called 'the Devil's Arse of Peak' (1678)
  • William Dampier, A Discourse of Winds, Breezes, Storms, Tides and Currents (1669)
  • Daniel Defoe, The Storm (1704)
  • John Pointer, A Rational Account of the Weather (1738)
  • Peter Martel, An Account of the Glaciers of Ice Alps in Savoy (1744)
  • John Dalton, A Descriptive Poem, addressed to Two Ladies at their Return from Viewing the Mines near Whitehaven (1755)
  • Richard Pococke, 'A Farther Account of the Giant's Causeway' in Philosophical Transactions (1753)
  • Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq (1756)
  • John Wesley, Serious Thoughts Occasioned by the Lisbon Earthquake (1755)
  • John Michell, Conjectures concerning the Cause, and Observations upon the Phaenomena, of Earthquakes (1760)
  • Robert Erskine, A Dissertation on Rivers and Tides (1770)
  • 'A Letter from Thomas Ronayne, Esq,
  • to Benjamin Franklin, LLD FRS, including an Account of some Observations on Atmospherical Electricity...Communicated by Mr William Henley' (1772)
  • William Hamilton, 'Letter 1' in Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos (1772)
  • John Whitehurst, An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth, deduced from the Facts and Laws of Nature (1778)
  • James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, With Proofs and Illustrations, from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1788)
  • Richard Kirwan, 'On the Primeval State of the Globe' in Geological Essays (1799)
  • Luke Howard, On the Modification of Clouds &c (1804)
  • William Charles Wells, An Essay on Dew, and Several Appearances Connected with It (1815)
  • William Scoresby, jun, 'Description of Ice-Fields, and Remarks on their Formation and Tremendous Concussions' in An Account of the Arctic Region, and of the Whale-Fishery (1820) Volume 4: Flora Selections from: Nehemiah Grew, Epistle Dedicatory: 'To His Most Sacred Majesty Charles III' in The Anatomy of Plants with an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants, and Several other Lectures, read before the Royal Society (1682)
  • Timothy Nourse, 'Of Grass rais'd from foreign seeds' in Compania Foelix: Or, a Discourse of the Benefits and Improvements of Husbandry (1700)
  • Thomas Stretser: Arbor Vitae: or, The Natural History of the Tree of Life. In Prose and Verse (1741)
  • The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria of Flowering Shrub: As it is collected from the best Botanists both Ancient and Modern (1732)
  • Stephen Switzer, 'The Introduction to Rural and Extensive Gardening etc' in Ichnographia Rustica: or, the Nobleman, Gentleman, and Gardener's recreation (1742)
  • James Perry, Mimosa, or, the sensitive plant
  • a poem (1779)
  • Erasmus Darwin, trans. C Linnaeus, 'Key of the Sexual System' in The Families of Plants, with their natural characters according to the number, figure, situationa, and proportion of all the parts of fructification (1787)
  • Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden
  • a poem, in two parts. Part I containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical notes (1789)
  • Elizabeth Moody, 'To Mr Darwin, on Reading his Loves of the Plants' in Poetic Trifles (1798)
  • Priscilla Wakefield, An Introduction to Botany, in a series of Familiar Letters (1706)
  • Charlotte Smith, Conversations introducing Poetry, Chiefly on Subjects of Natural History for the use of young persons (1819)
巻冊次

: [set, v. 5-8] ISBN 9781851967407

内容説明

This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.

目次

  • Part II Volume 5: Fauna Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses (1665)
  • John Ray, F.R.S., Philosophical Letters between Mr Ray and Several of his Correspondents (1718)
  • John Ray, F.R.S., The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation (1691)
  • Edward Tyson, MD, Orang-Outang, sive Homo sylvestris (1699)
  • Henry Baker, F.R.S., The Microscope Made Easy (1742)
  • Charles Linnaeus, The Animal Kingdom, or, Zoological System, of Sir C. Linnaeus ... by Robert Kerr (1792)
  • Thomas Pennant, British Zoology (1768-70) and Arctic Zoology (1784)
  • Lord Monboddo [James Burnett], 'Preface' to Mme Hecquet, Account of a Savage Girl caught Wild in the Woods of Champagne, trans. William Robertson (1768) and On the Origin and Process of Language (1773-92)
  • George Louis LeClerc, Comte de Buffon, Natural History, General and Particular (1780, 1785)
  • Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (1774)
  • Charles Bonnet, 'Experiments on the Reproduction of the Head of the Terrestrial Snail' from Lazzaro Spallanzani, Opuscoli di fisica animale e vegetabile, trans. John Graham Dalyell as Tracts on the Nature of Animals and Vegetables (1799)
  • Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia
  • or The Laws of Organic Life (1794, 1796)
  • Daines Barrington, 'Experiments and Observations on the Singing of Birds', from The History of Singing Birds, Containing an Exact Description of their Habits & Customs (1791)
  • Gilbert White, A Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History (1795)
  • Thomas Bewick and Ralph Beilby, History of British Birds, 6th edn (1826) Volume 6: Astronomy John Wilkins, A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet (1640)
  • Thomas Burnet, A Sacred Theory of the Earth (1691)
  • Christiaan Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discovered (1698)
  • William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth, from its Original, to the Consummation of All Things (1696) and Astronomical Principles of Religion, Natural and Reveal'd (1717)
  • John Harris, Astronomical Dialogues between a Gentleman and a Lady (1719)
  • Andrew Baxter, Matho: or The Cosmotheoria Puerilis, a Dialogue (1740)
  • Thomas Wright, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
  • John Hill, Urania: or, A Compleat View of the Heavens (1754)
  • James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles and Made Easy to Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics (1756)
  • Roger Long, Astronomy (1764 [actually after 1784])
  • John Newbery, The Newtonian System of Philosophy (1761)
  • William Herschel, 'Catalogue of a Second Thousand of New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars', Philosophical Transactions (1789) and 'On the Nature and Construction of the Sun', Philosophical Transactions (1795)
  • Robert Harrington, A New System on Fire and Planetary Life (1796)
  • Adam Walker, An Epitome of Astronomy (1817)
  • John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830) Volume 7: Natural Philosophy Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanicall (1660)
  • Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science (1665)
  • Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra: or, A Discourse of the Universe as it is the Creature and Kingdom of God (1701)
  • John Harris, Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1704)
  • John Hutchinson, Moses's Principia (1724)
  • Robert Green, Principles of the Philosophy of Expansive and Contractive Forces (1727)
  • Isaac Newton, 'General Scholium', Principia Mathematica (1729)
  • Roger Cotes, 'Preface', Principia Mathematica (1729)
  • John Rowning, Compendious System of Natural Philosophy (1735)
  • Richard Symes, Fire Analysed: or, The Several Parts of which it is Composed Demonstrated by Experiment (1771)
  • Richard Lovett, The Electrical Philosopher (1774)
  • Bryan Higgins, A Philosophical Essay Concerning Light (1776)
  • Oliver Goldsmith, A Survey of Experimental Philosophy, Considered in its Present State of Improvement (1776)
  • Richard Fowler, Experiments and Observations relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani, and Commonly Called Animal Electricity (1793)
  • William Paley, Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1802)
  • John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
  • Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) Volume 8: Chemistry George Thomson, Galeno-pale: or, A Chymical Trial of the Galenists, that their Dross in Physick may be Discovered (1665)
  • Christopher Merrett, A Short View of the Frauds, and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries (1670)
  • Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks: or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables (1727)
  • John Arbuthnot, 'Concerning the Influences of the Air on Human Constitution and Diseases', An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies (1733)
  • Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty: A Poem (1735)
  • Tiberius Cavallo, 'History of Aerostation'
  • 'Account of the first Aerial Voyage'
  • 'Practice of Aerostation', The History and Practice of Aerostation (1785)
  • Erasmus Darwin, 'A Letter to Thomas Beddoes on Methods for Treating Pulmonary Consumption'
  • Thomas Beddoes, 'A Letter to Erasmus Darwin on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption' (1793)
  • ['John Gifford' (John Richards Green)], 'The Pneumatic Revellers. An Eclogue', Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
  • or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, 6 (April-August 1800)
  • Humphry Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution on the 21st of January 1802 (1802)
  • Jane Marcet, 'On the General Principles of Chemistry'
  • 'On Oxygen and Nitrogen', Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments (1817)
  • Jeremiah Joyce, 'What is Chemistry?'
  • 'Oxygen'
  • 'Atmospheric Air & Eudiometry', Dialogues in Chemistry, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People (1816)
  • Edward Daniel Clarke, 'Account of some Experiments made with Newman's Blow-pipe, by Inflaming a Highly Condensed Mixture of the Gaseous Constituents of Water', Journal of Science and the Arts, 2 (1817)
  • [Thomas Hodgskin], 'Cheap Wine & Brandy'
  • 'Cheap Drunkenness'
  • 'The Galvanic Pile', The Chemist, 1 (1824)
  • Humphry Davy, 'The Chemical Philosopher', Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher (1830)

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