The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense /

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A surprising number of Victorian scientists wrote poetry. Many came to science as children through such games as the spinning-top, soap-bubbles and mathematical puzzles, and this playfulness carried through to both their professional work and writing of lyrical and satirical verse. This is the first...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Daniel, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Temas:
1800-1899
English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Scientists' writings.
Poésie anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Écrits de scientifiques.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English poetry
Literature and science
Scientists' writings
Englisch
Lyrik
Naturwissenschaftler
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Professionals and amateurs, work and play : William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell
  • 2. Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics
  • 3. Knowing more than you think : James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams
  • 4. Red lions : Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell
  • 5. Popular science lectures : "a Tyndallic ode"
  • 6. John Tyndall and "the scientific use of the imagination"
  • 7. "Molecular evolution" : Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius
  • 8. James Joseph Sylvester : the romance of space
  • 9. James Joseph Sylvester : the calculus of forms
  • 10. Science on Parnassus.

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