Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 3

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-138-76581-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawson, Gowan

Lightman, Bernard

Hale, Piers J

Smith, Jonathan

Anger, Suzy

Paradis, James

England, Richard

Nixon, Jude V

Amigoni, David

Elwick, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Volume 3 Science, Religion and Natural Theology Introduction The Divine Economy of Nature William Buckland, Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1837) Baden Powell, The Connexion between Natural and Divine Truth (1838) Samuel Brown, ‘The Argument of Design Equal to Nothing, or Nieuentyt and Paley vs. David Hume and St. Paul’ (1858) Edward Forbes, History of British Starfishes (1841) Frank Buckland, Curiosities of Natural History (1859) Henry Crosskey, The Method of Creation (1889) Cosmic Considerations Richard Proctor, Other Worlds Than Ours (1871) James Prescott Joule, ‘On Matter, Living Force, and Heat’ (1847) John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (1863) Thomas Huxley, ‘On the Physical Basis of Life’ (1868) James Iverach, Christianity and Evolution (1894) Redesigning Darwin F. Max Müller, The Science of Language (1891) F. Max Müller, ‘Lectures on Mr. Darwin’s Philosophy of Language: Second Lecture’ (1873) Henry Acland, The Harveian Oration (1865) Duke of Argyll [G. D. Campbell], The Reign of Law (1867) Charles Kingsley, ‘The Natural Theology of the Future’ (1871) George Henry Lewes Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed (1874–5) Problems of Life and Mind, Second Series: The Physical Basis of Mind (1877) Joseph Parker, Job’s Comforters, or Scientific Sympathy (1876) God and Nature: Knowing, Feeling David Moir, ‘Hymn to Hesperus’ and ‘Starlight Reflections’ (1852) Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘Nondum’ (1866) and ‘God’s Grandeur’ (1877) John Henry Newman, ‘Desolation’ (1868) Arthur Grey Butler, ‘In the Beginning’ (1892) George Romanes, ‘Charles Darwin – A Memorial Poem’, ‘The Drama of Life’ and ‘Natural Theology’ (1896) Editorial Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonanthan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V. Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick