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  • BJH volume 12 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / March 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. b1-b5
    Print publication:
    March 1979
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  • Scientific Naturalism and Social Reform in the Thought of Alfred Russel Wallace

  • John R. Durant
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / March 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 31-58
    Print publication:
    March 1979

  • There are few more likeable figures in the history of science than Alfred Russel Wallace. A warm-hearted and generous man, he won the admiration of virtually all who knew him for what one contemporary called ‘the charm of his personality’. Typical of this charm was his behaviour over the potentially sensitive question of his co-authorship with Darwin of the theory of natural selection. Ignoring all the disputes which might so easily have followed the events of 1858, Wallace never ceased to give Darwin all the credit for their theory. In 1864, the author of the Origin chided the younger man for his deference, writing, ‘you ought not … to speak of the theory as mine; it is just as much yours as mine. One correspondent has already noticed to me your “high-minded” conduct on this head’. But Wallace's reply was equally firm, ‘As to the theory of Natural Selection itself, I shall always maintain it to be actually yours and yours only’. If anyone is responsible for the comparative neglect from which the ‘other man’ of Darwinism has suffered, it is the other man himself.

  • Electricity, Knowledge, and the Nature of Progress in Priestley's Thought

  • John G. McEvoy
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 12 / Issue 1 / March 1979
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 1-30
    Print publication:
    March 1979

  • The appearance of Priestley's electrical work as a brief and irrelevant prelude to his more substantial chemical enquiries may explain why it has been strangely overlooked by historians of science. It was only fairly recently that Sir Philip Hartog sought to rectify this situation with the affirmation that ‘Priestley's electrical work offers the key to Priestley's scientific mind’. Attacking traditional chemical historiography for tracing Priestley's opposition to Lavoisier's theory to a deficiency in his scientific sensibilities, Hartog insisted that Priestley's natural philosophy can properly be understood only in relation to his ‘profound convictions on scientific method’ as fully expressed in the History of electricity. Only thus would Priestley's scientific thought be related correctly to his ‘work as a whole’.

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