Screen LibraryVisions of science : books and readers at the dawn of the Victorian age /
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 306 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-292) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226203287 (cloth) : 022620328X (cloth) |
| Index Number: | Q127 |
| CLC: | N095.61 |
| Call Number: | N095.61/S445 |
| Contents: | 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. |