What is History of Science?: The history of science in Britain: a personal view |
Background and foreground: getting things in context |
Romantic Science: The scientist as sage |
Romanticism and the sciences |
Steps towards a dynamical chemistry |
The physical sciences and the Romantic movement |
Chemistry, physiology and materialism in the Romantic period |
'Conquering the prejudices adopted from the French school of chemistry': the science in Britain in Gay-Lussac's time |
Organization and Utility: Science and professionalism in England, 1770-1830 |
Agriculture and chemistry in Britain around 1800 |
Tyrannies of distance in British science |
The application of enlightened philosophy: Banks and the physical sciences |
Pictures, Diagrams and Symbols: A note on sumptuous natural histories |
Scientific theory and visual language |
William Swainson: types, circles and affinities |
William Swainson: naturalist, author and illustrator |
Ordering the world |
Pictures, diagrams and symbols: visual language in 19th-century chemistry |
Scientific Language: Accomplishment or dogma: chemistry in the introductory works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes |
Lavoisier: discovery, interpretation and revolution |
Words that make worlds |
From science to wisdom: Humphry Davy's life |
Getting science across |
Epilogue: Science and culture in mid-Victorian Britain: the reviews, and William Crookes' Quarterly Journal of Science |
Observation, experiment, theory - and the spirits |
Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930): scientism and scepticism |
Index |
What is History of Science?: The history of science in Britain: a personal view |
Background and foreground: getting things in context |
Romantic Science: The scientist as sage |