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Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature
  • The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580–1670
  • Elizabeth Spiller
  • Published online:
    22 September 2009
    Print publication:
    27 May 2004
  • Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature brings together key works in early modern science and imaginative literature (from the anatomy of William Harvey and the experimentalism of William Gilbert to the fictions of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser and Margaret Cavendish). The book documents how what have become our two cultures of belief define themselves through a shared aesthetics that understands knowledge as an act of making. Within this framework, literary texts gain substance and intelligibility by being considered as instances of early modern knowledge production. At the same time, early modern science maintains strong affiliations with poetry because it understands art as a basis for producing knowledge. In identifying these interconnections between literature and science, this book contributes to scholarship in literary history, history of reading and the book, science studies and the history of academic disciplines.

The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700–1800
  • Niccolò Guicciardini
  • Published online:
    14 September 2009
    Print publication:
    07 December 1989
  • This book examines the development of calculus in Britain during the century following Newton. It is usually maintained that this was a period of decline in British mathematics. However, the author's research has shown that the methods used by researchers of the period yielded considerable success in laying the foundations and investigating the applications of the calculus. Even when 'decline' was at its worst point, in mid-century, the foundations of the reform, which were to change the direction and nature of the mathematics community, were being laid. The book considers the importance of the work of mathematicians such as Isaac Newton, Roger Cotes, Brook Taylor, James Stirling, Abraham de Moivre, Colin Maclaurin, Thomas Bayes, John Landen and Edward Waring. It will be useful to science historians and philosophers studying the period, and to students of British history studying the teaching of mathematics.

  • Scientific travel in the Atlantic world: the French expedition to Gorée and the Antilles, 1681–1683

  • NICHOLAS DEW
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 43 / Issue 1 / March 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 August 2009, pp. 1-17
    Print publication:
    March 2010

  • Although historians have long recognized the importance of long-range scientific expeditions in both the practice and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, it is less well understood how this form of scientific organization emerged and became established in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In the late seventeenth century new European scientific institutions tried to make use of globalized trade networks for their own ends, but to do so proved difficult. This paper offers a case history of one such expedition, the voyage sponsored by the French Académie royale des sciences to Gorée (in modern Senegal) and the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique in 1681–3. The voyage of Varin, Deshayes and de Glos reveals how the process of travel itself caused problems for instruments and observers alike.

Charles Darwin's 'The Life of Erasmus Darwin'
  • Charles Darwin
  • Edited by Desmond King-Hele
  • Published online:
    26 August 2009
    Print publication:
    10 October 2002
  • Charles Darwin's book about his grandfather, The Life of Erasmus Darwin, is curiously fascinating. Before publication in 1879, it was shortened by 16%, with several of the cuts directed at its most provocative parts. The cutter, with Charles's permission, was his daughter Henrietta - an example of the strong hidden hand of meek-seeming Victorian women. Originally published in 2003, this first unabridged edition, edited by Desmond King-Hele, includes all that Charles originally intended, the cuts being restored and printed in italics. Erasmus Darwin was one of the leading intellectuals of the eighteenth century. He was a respected physician, a well-known poet, a keen mechanical inventor, and a founding member of the influential Lunar Society. He also possessed an amazing insight into the many branches of physical and biological science. Most notably, he adopted what we now call biological evolution as his theory of life, 65 years prior to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species.

  • BJH volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 3 / September 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 August 2009, pp. b1-b3
    Print publication:
    September 2009
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  • BJH volume 42 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 42 / Issue 3 / September 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 August 2009, pp. f1-f2
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    September 2009
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