Energy and entropy: Science and culture in Victorian Britain. Essays from Victorian Studies (1989)
Brantlinger, Patrick (Editor)
Indiana University Press
Physical Details: vii + 352 pp.; illus.; notes
Description Collection of previously published articles. Contents: Yeo, Richard: Science and intellectual authority in mid-19th-century Britain: Robert Chambers and Vestiges of the natural history of creation. Stein, Dorothy K.: Lady Lovelace's notes: Technical text and cultural context. Secord, James A.: King of Siluria: Roderick Murchison and the imperial theme in geology. Hamlin, Christopher: Providence and putrefaction: Victorian sanitarians and the natural theology of health and disease. Pycior, Helena M.: At the intersection of mathematics and humor: Lewis Carroll's Alices and symbolical algebra. Becher, Harvey W.: The social origins and post-graduate careers of a Cambridge intellectual elite, 1830-1860. Wilson, David B.: A physicist's alternative to materialism: The religious thought of George Gabriel Stokes. Block, Ed, Jr.: T.H. Huxley's rhetoric and the popularization of Victorian scientific ideas, 1854-1874. Schabas, Margaret: The “worldly philosophy” of William Stanley Jevons. Peterson, M. Jeanne: Dr. Acton's enemy: Medicine, sex, and society in Victorian England. Van Keuren, David K.: Museums and ideology: Augustus Pitt-Rivers, anthropological museums, and social change in later Victorian Britain. Jann, Rosemary: Abbott's Flatland: Scientific imagination and “natural Christianity”. Myers, Greg: Nineteenth-century popularizations of thermodynamics and the rhetoric of social prophecy.
Review Forgan, S. (1990) Review of "Energy and entropy: Science and culture in Victorian Britain. Essays from Victorian Studies". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 483-84).
Review Richards, J. (1991) Review of "Energy and entropy: Science and culture in Victorian Britain. Essays from Victorian Studies". History (p. 340).
Review Briggs, A. (1990) Review of "Energy and entropy: Science and culture in Victorian Britain. Essays from Victorian Studies". Economic History Review (pp. 497-98).
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