This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.
PART I Volume 1 General Introduction Negotiating Boundaries General
Introduction Introduction On the Application of the Terms Poetry, Science,
and Philosophy (1834) William Whewell, Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
Founded upon their History (1840) Robert Hunt, Th e Poetry of Science; or,
Studies in the Physical Phenomena of Nature (1848) George Henry Lewes,
Comtes Philosophy of the Sciences: Being an Exposition of the Principles of
the Cours de Philosophie Positive of August Comte (1887) [ William Whewell],
Speddings Complete Edition of the Works of Bacon (1857) John Henry Newman,
Th e Mission of the Benedictine Order (1858) Hugh Miller, Popular Geology:
A Series of Lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh
(1859) Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Th e Gay Science (1866) Charles Kingsley, A
Charm of Birds (1867) 1Michael Faraday, Observations on the Education of
the Judgment. A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain
(1867) Thomas Henry Huxley, Aphorisms by Goethe (1869) 1John Tyndall, On
the Scientific Use of the Imagination (1871) John Ruskin, Th e Relation to
Art of the Sciences of Organic Form (1872) Edward Dowden, Th e Scientific
Movement and Literature (1877) Thomas Henry Huxley, On Science and Art in
Relation to Education (1882) William Samuel Lilly vs Thomas Henry Huxley
Lilly, Materialism and Morality (1886) Huxley, Science and Morals (1886)
Lilly, The Province of Physics (1887) 2Arthur James Balfour, Th e
Foundations of Belief (1895) Editorial Notes
Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Piers J Hale, Jonanthan Smith, Suzy Anger, James Paradis, Richard England, Jude V. Nixon, David Amigoni, James Elwick