Volume I. Human Nature
General Introduction
Volume 1 Introduction
Part 1. Theories of life
1. John Hunter, ‘On the Digestion of the Stomach after Death’, (1772) in Lazzaro Spallanzani, Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, tr. Thomas Beddoes, 2 vols (London: J. Murray, 1789) vol. 1, pp. 295-302.
2. Lazzaro Spallanzani, An Essay on Animal Reproductions, tr. M. Maty (London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, 1769).
3. Lazzaro Spallanzani, Dissertations Relative to the Natural History of Animals and Vegetables, tr. Thomas Beddoes, 2 vols (London: J. Murray, 1789), Dissertation 6, pp. 251-93.
4. John Hunter, A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds (London: George Nicol, 1794), pp. 11-100.
5. Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, 2 vols (London: J. Johnson, 1794-96), vol. 1, pp. 30-226,
6. William Lawrence, An Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology: Being the Two Introductory Lectures Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, on the 21st and 25th of March, 1816 (London: J. Callow, 1816), pp. 115-79.
7. John Abernethy, Physiological Lectures, Exhibiting a General View of Mr. Hunter's Physiology: and of his Researches in Comparative Anatomy. Delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, in the Year 1817 (London: Longman, 1817), pp. 25-54.
8. S. T. Coleridge, Hints Towards the Formation of a More Comprehensive Theory of Life, ed. Seth B. Watson (London: John Churchill, 1848), pp. 17-94.
9. James Cowles Prichard, A Review of the Doctrine of a Vital Principle (London, John and Arthur Arch, 1829), pp. 1-142.
Part 2. Anatomy and Medicine
10. Matthew Baillie, Diseased Appearances of the Lungs’, The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body (London: J. Johnson, 1793), pp. 42-55.
11. William Withering, An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of its Medical Uses (Birmingham: for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1785), pp. 2-5; 7-16.
12. John Brown, The Elements of Medicine, 2 vols (London: J. Johnson, 1795), vol. 1, pp. cxxvi-cxxxvii.
13. Edward Jenner, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (London: for the author, 1798)
14. Thomas Beddoes and James Watt, Considerations on the Medicinal Use of Factitious Airs (London: J. Johnson, 1794), pp. 9-15; 27.
15. Thomas Beddoes, Hygëia: or Essays Moral and Medical, on the Causes Affecting the Personal State of Our Middling and Affluent Classes, 3 vols (Bristol: printed by J. Mills for R. Phillips, London, 1802-3), vol. 1, Essay III; pp. 12-84.
Part 3. Evolution
16. James Burnett, Lord Monboddo Of the Origin and Progress of Language, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Edinburgh and London: J Balfour and T. Cadell, 1774), pp. 270-311.
17. Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or, the Laws of Organic Life, 2 vols (London: J. Johnson, 1794-96), vol. 1, pp. 478-533.
18. Erasmus Darwin, from The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical Notes (London: J. Johnson, 1803), pp. 25-37.
Part 4. Race
19. Petrus Camper, The Works of the late Professor Camper, on the Connexion between the Science of Anatomy and the Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary &c &c (London: C. Dilly, 1794), pp. 13-44.
20. Johan Friedrich Blumenbach, A Manual of the Elements of Natural History, tr. R. T. Gore (London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1825), pp. 34-37.
21. William Lawrence, Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man (London: J. Callow, 1819), pp. 119-20, 123-26, 383-64, 446-47, 461-63, 467, 475-79, 482-86, 488-94, 499-500, 549-50, 554-55, 559-61.
22. James Cowles Prichard, Researches into the Natural History of Mankind, 3rd edn (London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper and J. and A. Arch, 1836), pp. 366-76.
Bibliography
Index
Volume II. The Natural World
General Introduction
Volume 2 Introduction
Part 1. Botany and Zoology
1. William Withering, A Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain, 2 vols (Birmingham: printed by M. Swinney, for T. Cadel and P. Elmsley and G. Robinson, London, 1776), vol. I, pp. vii-xlvi.
2. Henry Smeathman, ‘Some Account of the Termites, Which are Found in Africa and Other Hot Climates’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 71 (1781), pp. 139-97.
3. Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (London: T. Bensley for B. White and Son, 1789), pp. 23-28.
4. William Bartram, Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians (Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791), pp. 86-98.
5. Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants (Part 2 of The Botanic Garden) (London: J. Johnson, 1791), pp. i-v; vii-8.
6. Maria Jacson, Botanical Lectures by a Lady (London: J. Johnson, 1804), pp. 190-95.
7. Thomas Andrew Knight, ‘On the Direction of the Radicle and Germen During the Vegetation of Seeds’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 96 (1806), pp. 99-108.
8. Luke Howard, Essay on the Modifications of Clouds (London: Harvey and Darton, 1833), pp. 5-39.
9. Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824, 2nd edn (London: B. Fellowes, 1828), pp. 19-25.
Part 2. Geology
10. John Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (Edinburgh: Cadell and Davies, 1802), pp. 81-97, 169-73.
11. James Parkinson, Organic Remains of a Former World, 3 vols (London: J. Robson et al, 1804-11), vol. 1, pp. 467-71.
12. William Buckland, Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, 2nd edn (London: J. Murray, 1824), pp 171-228.
13. Georges Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth, 5th edn (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and T. Cadell, 1827), pp. 30-42.
14. Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation (London: John Murray, 1830) pp. 524-34.
15. Adam Sedgwick and Roderick Impey Murchison, ‘On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems, Exhibiting the Order in Which the Older Sedimentary Strata Succeed Each Other in England and Wales’, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 5th Meeting (1835), pp. 59-61.
16. Roderick Impey Murchison, The Silurian System, 2 parts (London: J. Murray, 1839), Pt 1, pp. 311-22; Pt II pp. 579-85.
Bibliography
Index
Volume III. Forces
General Introduction
Volume 3 Introduction
Part 1. Chemistry
1. Joseph Priestley, from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, vol II (London: J. Johnson, 1775), pp. 29-61; 101-102.
2. Jan Ingenhousz, from Experiments upon Vegetables (London: P. Elmsly and H. Payne, 1779), pp. xxxiii-xxxviii, xlii-xlv; Section IX, pp. 219-22
3. Henry Cavendish, ‘Experiments on Air’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 74 (1784), pp. 119-53.
4. Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order, tr. Robert Kerr, 2 vols (Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1802), pp. 37-117.
5. Thomas Beddoes, Notice of Some Observations Made at the Medical Pneumatic Institution (London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1799), pp. 6-16.
6. Humphry Davy, Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide (London: J. Johnson, 1800), pp. 456-96; 548-59.
7. William Henry, 'Experiments on the Quantity of Gases Absorbed by Water, at Different Temperatures, and Under Different Pressures', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 93 (1803), pp. 29-42
8. John Dalton, A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Part I (Manchester: for R. Bickerstaff, London, 1808), pp. 141-50; Part II (1810), pp. 546-48, 560.
9. Humphry Davy, ‘On the Fire-Damp of Coal Mines, and on Methods of Lighting the Mines so as to Prevent Iis Explosion’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 106 (1816), pp. 1-22.
Part 2. Heat and Light
10. John Herapath, ‘A Mathematical Enquiry into the Causes, Laws and Principal Phenomena of Heat, Gases, Gravitation’, Annals of Philosophy, NS 1 (1821), pp. 273-93.
11. Joseph Black, from Lectures on the Elements of Chemistry (Edinburgh: W. Creech and London: Longman and Rees, 1803), pp. 147-67.
12. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, from ‘An Experimental Inquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat Which is Excited by Friction’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 88 (1798), pp. 80-102.
13. William Herschel, ‘Investigation of the Powers of the Prismatic Colours to Heat and Illuminate Objects’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 90 (1800), pp. 255-83.
14. Thomas Young, ‘On the Theory of Light and Colours’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 92 (1802), pp. 12-48.
15. Thomas Wedgwood and Humphry Davy, ‘An Account of the Method of Copying Painting upon Glass and of Making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon the Nitrate of Silver. Invented by Thomas Wedgwood, Esq., with observations by H. Davy’, Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1 (1802), pp. 170-74.
16. David Brewster, ‘On the Laws Which Regulate the Polarisation of Light by Reflexion from Transparent Bodies’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 105 (1815), pp. 125-59.
Part 3. Electricity/Electro-chemistry
17. Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson, ‘Account of the New Electrical or Galvanic Apparatus’, Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, 4 (1801), pp. 179-87.
18. Adam Walker, from A System of Familiar Philosophy, 2 vols (London: for the author, 1802), vol. 1, Part 2, pp. 51-74.
19. Humphry Davy, ‘On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 98 (1808), pp. 1-44.
20. Humphry Davy, ‘On Some of the Combinations of Oxymuriatic Gas and Oxygene, and on the Chemical Relations of These Principles, to Inflammable Bodies’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 101 (1811), pp. 1-35.
21. Andrew Ure, from ‘An Account of Some Experiments Made on the Body of a Criminal Immediately after Execution, with Physiological and Practical Observations’, Quarterly Journal of Science, 6 (1819), pp. 283-94.
22. J. C. Oersted, ‘Experiments on the Effect of a Current of Electricity on the Magnetic Needle’, Annals of Philosophy, 16 (1820), pp. 273-77.
23. Michael Faraday, ‘Experimental Researches into Electricity’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 122 (1832), pp. 125-62.
Part 4. Astronomy
24. ‘A letter from William Herschel, Esq. F.R.S. to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P.R.S. and ‘On the Diameter and Magnitude of the Georgium Sidus’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 73 (1783), pp. 1-3 and 4-14.
25. John Michell , ‘On the Means of Discovering the Distance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, in Consequence of the Diminution of the Velocity of Their Light, in Case Such a Diminution Should Be Found to Take Place in Any of Them, and Such Other Data Should Be Procured from Observations, as Would be Farther Necessary for That Purpose’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 74 (1784), pp. 35-57.
26. William Herschel, from ‘On the Construction of the Heavens’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 75 (1785), pp. 213-66.
27. Mary Somerville, from Mechanism of the Heavens (London: J. Murray, 1831), pp. v-lxx.
28. John Pringle Nichol, Views of the Architecture of the Heavens (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1837), pp. 193-207.
Bibliography
Index
Volume IV. Science in Society
General Introduction
Volume 4 Introduction
Part 1. Women in Science
1. Caroline Herschel, from ‘An Account of a New Comet. In a letter from Miss Caroline Herschel to Charles Blagden, M.D. Sec. R. S.’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 77 (1787), pp. 1-3
2. Priscilla Wakefield, from Introduction to Botany (Dublin: P. Wogan et al, 1796), Preface and pp. 1-3.
3. Jane Marcet, from Conversations on Chemistry, Intended More Especially for the Female Sex (London: Longman, Rees, Hurst, Orme and Brown, 1817), pp. Preface; and pp. 160-81.
Part 2. The Figure of the Scientist/Philosophy of Science
4. Humphry Davy, from Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) in The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, ed. John Davy (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839), vol. 2, pp. 307-26.
5. S. T. Coleridge, from The Friend, 3 vols (London: Rest Fenner, 1818), vol. 2, section 2, essays 6 and 7.
6. Charles Babbage, from Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes (London: B. Fellowes and J. Booth, 1830), pp. 3-26.
7. J. F. W. Herschel, from A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830), pp. 347-61.
8. Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 2nd edn (London: J. Murray, 1834), pp. 188-238.
9. William Whewell, from ‘On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences. By Mrs. Somerville’, The Quarterly Review, 51 (1834), pp. 54-68.
Part 3. Institutions
10. The Pneumatic Institution: from Thomas Beddoes, ed., Proposal towards the Improvement of Medicine (Bristol, 1794).
11. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, from Proposals for Forming by Subscription in the Metropolis of the British Empire a Public Institution (London, 1799), pp. 1-50.
12. ‘Proposals for the Establishment of a London Mechanics Institute’, Mechanics’ Magazine, 1 (1823), pp. 99-103.
Part 4. Popular Science
13. James Graham, from A Lecture on the Generation, Increase, and Improvement of the Human Species (London: printed for the author, 1783), pp. 6-14, 18, 20.
14. Benjamin Perkins, from The Influence of Metallic Tractors on the Human Body (London: J. Johnson, 1798), pp. 88-99.
15. George Roberts, A Catechism of Electricity; Being a Short Introduction to That Science (London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822), pp. 31-39.
16. David Brewster, from Letters on Natural Magic (London: J. Murray, 1832), pp. 8-36, 56-97.
Part 5. Technology
17. Threshing Machines, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 339-41.
18. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, from An Essay on Chimney Fire-places; with Proposals for Improving Them, to Save Fuel (Dublin: R. E. Mercier, 1796), pp. 1-24.
19. Robert Southey, ‘The Black Country’, from Letters from England, 3rd edn, 3 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814), vol. 2, pp. 56-66.
20. Thomas Carlyle, ‘The Mechanical Age’ from ‘Signs of the Times’, The Edinburgh Review, 98 (June, 1829), pp. 439-59.
21. William Matthews, from An Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress and Present State of Gas-Lighting (London: Rowland Hunter, 1827), pp. 19-52, 235-37.
22. Andrew Ure, ‘The Factory System’, from The Philosophy of Manufactures (London: Charles Knight, 1835), pp. 105-24, 160-206.
23. Edward Baines, from A History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain (London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson, 1835), pp. 147-244.
24. John Herapath, ‘On Railroads’ and ‘Railway Travelling’, The Railway Magazine, 1 (1836), pp. 1-7; 110-13.
25. ‘Ships’ Blocks’, from ‘Manufactures’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 295-98.
26. Charles Babbage, from ‘On the General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufacture and the Mechanical Arts’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 18-84.
27. ‘Steam Engines’ from ‘Manufactures’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 184-87.
28. Mary Strickland, from A Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Inventions, of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. FRS: Inventor of the Power Loom (London: Saunders and Otley, 1843), pp. 54-67, 330-33.
29. Samuel Smiles, ‘Pont-Cysylltau Aqueduct’ from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, new edn (London: J. Murray, 1867), pp. 155-63.
30. Samuel Smiles, from Lives of the Engineers: the Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson, new edn (London: J. Murray, 1877), pp. 63-88, 123-45, 207-20.
31. Samuel Smiles, from Lives of the Engineers: Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges. John Rennie, new edn (London: J. Murray, 1874), pp. 222-39.
32. Samuel Smiles, from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers. Henry Maudslay (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), pp. 245-88.
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Biography
Tim Fulford is Professor of English at de Montfort University. His publications include Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later Poetry: Dialogues with the Dead (2023) Robert Southey, Lives of Labouring-class Poets, ed. Tim Fulford (2023) and Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism (2022).
