Table of Contents
Volume I – Curiosity
Acknowledgements
General Introduction
Volume I Introduction
Part 1. General
1. Ernest Renan, The Future of Science: Ideas of 1848 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1891), 109-16.
2. George Craik, The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties (London: Charles Knight, 1831), II, 1-3, 121-4.
3. John Frederick William Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831), 57-64.
Part 2. Medicine
4. Edward Jenner, In Inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae: a disease discovered in some of the western counties of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of the cow pox (Private printing, London: first published, 1798, this edition 1800), 9-36.
5. Emma Hardinge Britten, The Electric Physician: or Self Cure through Electricity (William Britten: Boston, 1875), 3-6.
6. Walter Bradford Cannon, A Laboratory Course in Physiology (1911; 4th edn, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923), xv-xvi.
Part 3. Galvanism
7. John Aldini, An Account of the Galvanic Experiments performed by John Aldini on the Body of a Malefactor (London: Cuthell and Martin, 1803), 1-34.
8. John Aldini, An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism (London: Cuthell and Martin, 1803), 101-7, 110-12.
Part 4. Chemistry/Physics
9. Claude Louis Berthollet, An Essay on Chemical Statics (London: J. Mawman, 1804), I, vii-xiv.
10. John Dalton, A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1810).
11. Michael Faraday, Chemical Manipulation; being instructions to students in chemistry, on the methods of performing experiments of demonstration or of research, with accuracy and success (1827), i-ix.
12. Justus Liebig, Instructions for the Chemical Analysis of Organic Bodies (Glasgow: Richard Griffith, 1839), 1-13.
13. Justus Liebig, Animal Chemistry, or Organic Chemistry in its application to Physiology and Pathology (New York: Wiley, 1848), ix-xix.
14. Justus Liebig, ‘Autobiographical Sketch’, The Popular Science Monthly, 40 (1892-3), 655-66.
15. George Gore, The Art of Scientific Discovery; or, The General Conditions and Methods of Research in Physics and Chemistry (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878), 306-24, 372-97.
16. Arthur Mason Worthington, A First Course of Physical Laboratory Practice (London: Longman, Green, and Co., 1890), 12-26.
17. Horace Lemuel Wells, A Laboratory Guide in Qualitative Chemical Analysis (New York: Wiley, 1898), iii-iv.
18. Marie Sklodowska Curie, ‘Radium and Radioactivity’, Century Magazine (1904), 461-6.
19. Ernst von Meyer, A History of Chemistry from Earliest Times to the Present Day (London: MacMillan, 1906), 6, 96-9, 217-18.
20. Svante Arrhenius, Theories of Chemistry: Being Lectures Delivered at the University of California, in Berkeley (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), 1-11.
21. Svante Arrhenius, Theories of Solution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912), xvii-xx.
Part 5. Astronomy
22. John F.W. Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy (London: Lonman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1833), 1-9.
23. John F.W. Herschel, Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847), v-xx.
24. Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1885), 1-10.
25. Eliza Bowen, Astronomy by Observation: An Elementary Text-Book for High-Schools and Academies (New York: D. Appleton, 1888), 5-8.
Part 6. Anthropometry/Eugenics
26. British Association for the Advancement of Science Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee (London: Spottiswoode, 1883), 1-3.
27. Alexander Graham Bell, ‘Sheep-Breeding Experiments on Beinn Bhreagh’, Science, 36 (1912), 378-84.
Part 7. Physiology
28. Lydia Folger Fowler, Familiar Lessons on Physiology: Designed for the Use of Children and Youth (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1848), I, 135-8.
29. Thomas Henry Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology (London: MacMillan, 1868), vii-ix.
30. Thomas Henry Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology (London: MacMillan, 1885), v-vi.
31. Henry Head and William Halse Rivers, ‘A Human Experiment on Nerve Division’, Brain (1908), 324-42.
32. Edward Sharpey Schafer, Experimental Physiology (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), vi, 1.
Part 8. Biology/Botany
33. Emily L. Gregory, ‘The Old and New Botany’, Botanical Gazette (1887), 253-4.
Part 9. Psychology
34. Mary Whiton Calkins, A First Book in Psychology (New York: MacMillan, 1910), 6-8.
Index
