Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
BENJAMIN BANNEKER
Benjamin Banneker’s Pennsylvania Almanack, 1783
Banneker’s New-Jersey Almanac, 1795
XAVIER BICHAT
Physiological Researches on Life and Death
WILLIAM PALEY
Natural Theology
ERASMUS DARWIN
The Temple of Nature
JOHN DALTON
A New System of Chemical Philosophy
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK
Zoological Philosophy
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE
Theory of Colours
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
The Island of Cuba
CHARLES BABBAGE
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England
CHARLES LYELL
Principles of Geology
MARY FAIRFAX SOMERVILLE
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences
THEODOR SCHWANN
Microscopical Researches
NIKOLAI IVANOVICH LOBACHEVSKY
Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels
ROBERT CHAMBERS
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
GEORGE COMBE
The Constitution of Man
WILLIAM WHEWELL
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
HERBERT SPENCER
Social Statics
AUGUSTE COMTE
The Positive Philosophy
CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN
Origin of Species
Descent of Man
LOUIS PASTEUR
“Infusorian Animalcules Living Without Free Oxygen”
“Experiments Related to Spontaneous Generation”
MICHAEL FARADAY
Chemical History of a Candle
FRIEDRICH MAX MÜLLER
The Science of Language
HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ
“On the Conservation of Force”
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
“A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field”
CLAUDE BERNARD
Introduction à I’étude de la médecine expérimentale
JOSEPH LISTER
“On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery”
SIR FRANCIS GALTON
Hereditary Genius
JOHN TYNDALL
The Belfast Address
WILLIAM THOMSON, LORD KELVIN
“Review of Evidence Regarding the Physical Condition of the
Earth”
DMITRII IVANOVICH MENDELEEV
“The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements”
WILLIAM JAMES
The Principles of Psychology
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Evolution and Ethics
WILHELM CONRAD RÖNTGEN
“On a New Kind of Rays”
MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE
“The Discovery of Radium”
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
Feeding Acorns
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
“On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the
Original Type”
The Wonderful Century
Index of Names
Index of Topics
About the Author
A.S. Weber of The State University of New York at
Binhamton is also the author of Women Almanac Writers and of
scholarly articles on such writers as Christina Rossetti and
Matthew Arnold.
Reviews
Weber has given us the best anthology of nineteenth-century science
available. Drawing on a wide variety of rich sources, from Paley to
Dalton, Lyell, Chambers, Combe, Darwin, Pasteur, Helmholtz, Huxley,
and Curie, among others, Weber opens a window onto the fascinating
world of nineteenth-century science." - Bernard Lightman, Professor
of Humanities, York University, and author of Victorian Science in
Context (University of Chicago Press).