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Routledge
This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Acknowledgements, Note on Copy-texts, General Introduction, Introduction to Volume 1, Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (1667), Robert Hooke, ‘The Present State of Natural Philosophy’ (1705), Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Conversations with a Lady, on the Plurality of Worlds (1719), John Theophilus Desaguliers, Newtonian System of the World (1728), Voltaire, Introduction to the Philosophy of Newton (1738), Francesco Algarotti, Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained (1739), Henry Jones, ‘Philosophy: A Poem, Addressed to the Young Ladies who Attended Mr Booth’s Lectures in Dublin’ (1749), Benjamin Martin, ‘The Life of Newton’ (1764), Joseph Priestley, The History of Electricity (1775), Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy (1779), Joseph Priestley, Heads of Lectures On A Course of Experimental Philosophy (1794), Jane Marcet, Conversations on Natural Philosophy (1819), Charles Babbage, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830), John Paris, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy (1831), William Whewell, ‘Review of On The Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mrs Somerville’ (1834), Bibliography, Notes
Biography
Judith Hawley
