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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: ROMANTICISM

Volume 20

SCIENCE IN THE ROMANTIC ERA

Science in the Romantic Era

David M. Knight

First published in 1998 by Ashgate Publishing Limited

This edition first published in 2016
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1998 David M. Knight

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David M. Knight

Science in the Romantic Era

This edition copyright 1998 by David M. Knight

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Knight, David M.
Science in the Romantic Era. (Variorum Collected Studies Series CS615)
1. Science History 19th Century. I. Title
509'.034

US Library of Congress CIP Data
Knight, David M.
Science in the Romantic Era / David M. Knight.
p. cm. (Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS615)
1. Science History 18th Century. 2. Science History - 19th Century.
3. Science History Sources. I. Title. II. Series: Variorum Collected
Studies series: CS615.
Q125.K569 1998
509'.034-dc21

98-14851
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Contents

PART 1: WHAT IS HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Zeitschrift fr allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 15, pp. 34353. Wiesbaden, 1984

British Journal for the History of Science 20, pp. 312. London, 1987

PART 2: ROMANTIC SCIENCE

Studies in Romanticism 6, pp. 6588. Boston, 1967

Romanticism and the Sciences, eds A. Cunningham and N. Jardine, pp. 1324. Cambridge, 1990

Ambix 14, pp. 17997. Cambridge, 1967

History of Science 9, pp. 5475. Cambridge, 1970

Chemistry, Physiology and Materialism in the Romantic Period

Durham University Journal 64, pp. 13945. Durham, 1972

"Conquering the Prejudice adopted from the French School of Chemistry": the Science in Britain in Gay-Lussac's Time

Actes du Colloque Gay-Lussac, pp. 16575. Paris, 1980

PART 3: ORGANIZATION AND UTILITY

Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on History of Science 1, pp. 5367. Tokyo, 1974

Annals of Science 33, pp. 18796. London, 1976

International Science and National Scientific Identity, eds R. Home and S. G. Kohlstedt, pp. 4969. Dodrecht, 1990

The Application of Enlightened Philosophy: Banks and the Physical Sciences

Sir Joseph Banks: A Global Perspective, eds R.L.R. Banks et al" pp. 7786. Kew, 1994

PART 4: PICTURES, DIAGRAMS AND SYMBOLS

Annals of Science 34, pp. 31114. London, 1977

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, new Series 22, pp. 10624. Uppsala, 1985

The Light of Nature, eds J.D. North and J.J. Roche, pp. 3349, Dodrecht, 1985

Archives of Natural History 13, pp. 27590. London, 1986

Hegels Philosophic der Natur, eds R.P. Horstmann and M.J. Petry, pp. 40112. Stuttgart, 1986

Pictures, Diagrams and Symbols: Visual Language in Nineteenth-Century Chemistry

Non-Verbal Communication in Science prior to 1900, ed. R. Mazzolini, pp. 32144. Florence, 1993

PART 5: SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE

Accomplishment or Dogma: Chemistry in the Introductory Works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes

Ambix 33. pp. 9498. Cambridge, 1986

Rediconti della Accademia Nazionale delta dei XL 112, pp. 251259. Rome 1994

Science and Public Affairs, pp. 2325. London, 1994

Telling Lives: Essays on Scientific Biography, eds M. Shortland and R, Yeo, pp. 10314. Camhridge, 1996

British Journal for the History of Science 29, pp. 12938. London, 1996

PART 6: EPILOGUE

Reviews and William Crookes' Quarterly Journal of Science Nuncius, pp. 4354. Florence, 1996

Durham University Journal 83, pp. 1324. Durham, 1991

Arthur James Balfour (18481930): Scientism and Scepticism

Durham University Journal 87, pp. 2330. Durham, 1995

It is a well-known fact that, like claret, historians of science improve and mellow with the passage of time. Returning to papers written in the vigour of youth is nevertheless a curious and chastening experience. S.T.Coleridge was advised at school to go through whatever he had written, and when he came upon anything he thought especially fine, to strike it out. His teacher was clearly right, and sometimes a fine phrase insinuated into an old paper may here trip up the reader, as it did this one. Looking back over more than thirty years makes one smile indulgently at brash remarks, or sometimes wince at overconfidence; and then sometimes feel surprise at the perceptiveness and sharp wittedness of the younger me. It was said of Joseph Priestley and of William Paley that they never wrote an obscure sentence: how splendid it would be to be confident of doing the same.

Pierre Duhem said that there are two kinds of mind: the broad and shallow, and the deep and penetrating. There is no doubt that mine is in the former category. Some of these papers were written because after reading or hearing something, I had a great urge to say my piece; but many of them were commissioned. What a joy it is to be asked to do something, if one is basically rather indolent: pulling things together; responding to a deadline; negotiating (like Christopher Wren over St Paul's) so that the editor, organizer or publisher has to accept one's strengths and limitations; getting it reasonably right on the night.

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