Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century

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LITERATURE AND SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. PROLOGUE: LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. Sonnet---To Science (1829) / Edgar Allan Poe The Belfast Address (1874) / John Tyndall From Science and Culture (1880) / Thomas Henry Huxley Literature and Science (1882) / Matthew Arnold MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY. Mathematics. Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) / Ada Lovelace From Formal Logic (1847) / Augustus De Morgan From An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) / George Boole From The Logic of Chance (1866) / John Venn From Through the Looking-Glass (1871) From The Game of Logic (1886) / Lewis Carroll From Daniel Deronda (1876) / George Eliot From The Time Machine (1895) / H.G. Wells Physical Science. From On the Power of Penetrating into Space by Telescopes (1800) / Sir William Herschel From Past and Present (1843) / Thomas Carayle From Outlines of Astronomy (1849) / Sir John Herschell From Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839-55) (1852) / Michael Faraday On the Age of the Sun's Heat (1862) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin On Chemical Rays, and the Light of the Sky (1869) On the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1870) / John Tyndall From Theory of Heat (1871) To the Chief Musician upon Nabla: A Tyndallic Ode (1874) Professor Tait, Loquitur (1877) Answer to Tait To Hermann Stoffkraft (1878) / James Clerk Maxwell The Sorting Demon of Maxwell (1879) / William Thomson, Lord Kelvin From Two on a Tower (1882) / Thomas Hardy The Photographic Eyes of Science (1883) / Richard A. Proctor On a New Kind of Rays (1895) / Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen Telcommunications. Letter to Hon. Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the US Treasury, 27 September 1837 / Samuel F.B. Morse The Telephone from Westminster Review (1878) / Anonymous Mental Telegraphy (1891) / Mark Twain The Deep-Sea Cables (1896) / Rudyard Kipling In the Cage (1898) / Henry James Bodies and Machines. From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832) / Charles Babbage From Dombey and Son (1847-8) / Charles Dickens On the Conservation of Force (1847) / Hermann Von Helmholtz From Erewhon (1872) / Samuel Butler To a Locomotive in Winter (1876) / Walt Whitman SCIENCES OF THE BODY. Animal Electricity. From De Viribus Electricitatis (1791) / Luigi Galvani From Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) / Sir Humphrey Davy From Frankenstein (1818) / Mary Shelley I Sing the Body Electric [1855] (1867) / Walt Whitman Cells and Tissues and Their Relation to the Body. From General Anatomy (1801) / Xavier Bichat From Cellular Pathology (1858) / Rudolf Virchow From Middlemarch (1871-2) / George Eliot From the Physical Basis of Mind (1877) / George Henry Lewes Hygiene, Germ Theory, and Infectious Diseases. From The Last Man (1826) / Mary Shelley An Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842) / Sir Edwin Chadwick [The Mask of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) (1842) / Edgar Allan Poe The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (1843) / Oliver Wendall Holmes On the Organized Bodies Which Exist in the Atmosphere (1861) / Louis Pasteur Illustrations of the Antiseptic System (1867) / Sir Joseph Lister Dr Koch on the Cholera (1884) / Anonymous The Stolen Bacillus (1895) / H.G. Wells Experimental Medicine and Vivisection. From An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) / Claude Bernard Vivisection: Its Pains and Its Uses (1881) / Sir James Paget Vivisection and Its Two-Faced Advocates (1882) / Frances Power Cobbe From Heart and Science (1883) / Wilkie Collins From The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) / H.G. Wells EVOLUTION. The Present and the Past. From Zoological Philosophy (1809) / Jean Baptiste De Lamarck From Principles of Geology (1830-3) / Sir Charles Lyell From Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840) / William Whewell From The Princess (1847) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson From The Origin of Species (1859) / Charles Darwin From The Mill on the Floss (1860) / George Eliot On the Physical Basis of Life (1869) / Thomas Henry Huxley From The Story of an African Farm (1883) / Olive Schreiner From Mental Evolution in Man (1888) / George John Romanes The Individual and the Species. From In Memoriam, LIII-LV, CXVIII (1850) / Alfred, Lord Tennyson From Principles of Biology (1864-7) / Herbert Spencer Hap (1866) From A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) / Thomas Hardy From The Evolution of Man (1874) / Ernst Haeckel From Unconscious Memory (1880) / Samuel Butler Evolution (1880) To Nature / Emily Pfeiffer From Essays on Heredity (1881-5) / August Weismann Lay of the Trilobite (1885) / May Kendall Nature is a Heraclitean Fire (1888) / Gerard Manley Hopkins Sexual Selection. From Pride and Prejudice (1813) / Jane Austen From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) / Charles Darwin From She (1887) / Henry Rider Haggard Natural Selection (1887) / Constance Naden From Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) / Thomas Hardy SCIENCES OF THE MIND. The Relationship between Mind and Body. From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) / Thomas De Quincey On the Reflex Function (1833) / Marshall Hall From A Treatise on Insanity (1835) / James Cowles Prichard [The Birthmark](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455204W) (1846) / Nathaniel Hawthorne From [bartleby the Scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) (1856) / Herman Melville From Mind and Brain (1860) / Thomas Laycock From Lady Audley's Secret (1862) / Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Case of George Dedlow (1866) / S. Weir Mitchell From Body and Mind (1870) / Henry Maudsley From Principles of Mental Physiology (1874) / William B. Carpenter From Principles of Psychology (1890) / William James Physiognomy and Phrenology. From Elements of Phrenology (1824) / George Combe From Phrenology in Connection with the Study of Physiognomy (1826) / Johann Gaspar Spurzheim From Jane Eyre (1847) / Charlotte Brontë From The Lifted Veil (1859) / Geroge Eliot Mesmerism and Magnetism. From Facts in Mesmerism (1840) / Chauncey Hare Townsend From Surgical Operations without Pain in the Mesmeric State (1843) / John Elliotson [Mesmeric Revelation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646037W) (1844) / Edgar Allan Poe From Letters on Mesmerism (1845) / Harriet Martineau From Mesmerism in India (1847) / James Esdaile Mesmerism (1855) / Robert Browning From The Moonstone (1868) / Wilkie Collins Dreams and the Unconscious. When Thou Sleepest (1837) / Charlotte Brontë Unconscious Cerebration: A Psychological Study (1871) / Frances Power Cobbe From The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) / Robert Louis Stevenson Address to the German Chemical Society (1890) / August Kenkule Nervous Exhaustion. From Elsie Venner (1861) / Oliver Wendell Holmes From Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked (1872) / S. Weir Mitchell The Yellow Wall-Paper (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman SOCIAL SCIENCES. Creating the Social Sciences. From Panopticon (1791) From Manual of Political Economy (1793) / Jeremy Bentham From An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) / Thomas Malthus From A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (1832) / J.R. M'Culloch From Bleak House (1852-3) / Charles Dickens From Positive Philosophy (1853) / Auguste Comte From Hard Times (1854) / Charles Dickens From Utilitarianism (1861) / John Stuart Mill From Jude the Obscure (1895) / Thomas Hardy Race Science. From The Races of Men (1850) / Robert Knox From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883) / Sir Francis Galton [The Yellow Face](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20571966W) (1894) / Arthur Conan Doyle Urban Poverty. From The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) / Friedrich Engels From London Labour and the London Poor (1851) / Henry Mayhew From North and South (1855) / Elizabeth Gaskell East London (1867) West London / Matthew Arnold Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language (1879) / J.W. Horsley From Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) / George Bernard Shaw From East London (1899) / Walter Besant Degeneration. From The Criminal Man (1876) / Cesare Lombroso From The Nether World (1889) / George Gissing From The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) / Oscar Wilde From Degeneration (1892) / Max Nordau From The Heavenly Twins (1893) / Sarah Grand From Dracula (1897) / Bram Stoker EPILOGUE: SCIENCE AND LITERATURE. Prose and Verse (1857) / Sir John Herschel

First Sentence

John Tyndall called imagination 'the mightiest instrument of the physical discoverer'.

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• Oxford World's Classics

Other Editions

• Literature and Science in the Nineteenth CenturyPaperbackOxford University Press2009-01-01
• Literature and Science in the Nineteenth CenturyOxford University Press2002-01-01
• Literature and science in the nineteenth centuryOxford University Press2002-01-01