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by
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, Introduction, George Thomson, Galeno-pale: or, A Chymical Trial of the Galenists, that their Dross in Physick may be Discovered (1665), Christopher Merrett, A Short View of the Frauds, and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries (1670), Stephen Hales, Vegetable Staticks: or, An Account of Some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables (1727), John Arbuthnot, ‘Concerning the Influences of the Air on Human Constitution and Diseases’, An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies (1733), Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty: A Poem (1735), Tiberius Cavallo, ‘History of Aerostation’; ‘Account of the first Aerial Voyage’; ‘Practice of Aerostation’, The History and Practice of Aerostation (1785), Erasmus Darwin, ‘A Letter to Thomas Beddoes on Methods for Treating Pulmonary Consumption’; Thomas Beddoes, ‘A Letter to Erasmus Darwin on a New Method of Treating Pulmonary Consumption’ (1793), [‘John Gifford’ (John Richards Green)], ‘The Pneumatic Revellers. An Eclogue’, Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, 6 (April–August 1800), Humphry Davy, A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution on the 21st of January 1802 (1802), Jane Marcet, ‘On the General Principles of Chemistry’; ‘On Oxygen and Nitrogen’, Conversations on Chemistry, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments (1817), Jeremiah Joyce, ‘What is Chemistry?’; ‘Oxygen’; ‘Atmospheric Air & Eudiometry’, Dialogues in Chemistry, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People (1816), Edward Daniel Clarke, ‘Account of some Experiments made with Newman’s Blow-pipe, by Inflaming a Highly Condensed Mixture of the Gaseous Constituents of Water’, Journal of Science and the Arts, 2 (1817), [Thomas Hodgskin], ‘Cheap Wine & Brandy’; ‘Cheap Drunkenness’; ‘The Galvanic Pile’, The Chemist, 1 (1824), Humphry Davy, ‘The Chemical Philosopher’, Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher (1830), Bibliography, Notes, Index
Biography
Judith Hawley
