Earthly powers
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Earthly powers
（Literature and science, 1660-1834 / general editor, Judith Hawley ; advisory editor, Akihito Suzuki, v. 3）
Pickering & Chatto, 2003
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Reprinted from various works published in 1669-1820
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-403)
内容説明・目次
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)
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