Science Writing in the Romantic Era 1770-1837

Tim Fulford is Professor of English at de Montfort University. His publications include Experimentalism in Wordsworth's later Poetry: Dialogues with the Dead (2023) Robert Southey, Lives of Labouring-class Poets, ed. Tim Fulford (2023) and Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley and Rise and Progress of Methodism (2022).

• Volume 4. Science in SocietyGeneral IntroductionVolume 4 IntroductionPart 1. Women in Science1. Caroline Herschel, from ‘An Account of a New Comet. In a letter from Miss Caroline Herschel to Charles Blagden, M.D. Sec. R. S.’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 77 (1787), pp. 1-32. Priscilla Wakefield, from Introduction to Botany (Dublin: P. Wogan et al, 1796), Preface and pp. 1-3.3. Jane Marcet, from Conversations on Chemistry, Intended More Especially for the Female Sex (London: Longman, Rees, Hurst, Orme and Brown, 1817), pp. v-x, 160-81.Part 2. The Figure of the Scientist/Philosophy of Science4. Humphry Davy, from Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry (1802) in The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, ed. John Davy (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839), vol. 2, pp. 307-26.5. S. T. Coleridge, from The Friend, 3 vols (London: Rest Fenner, 1818), vol. 2, section 2, essays 6 and 7.6. Charles Babbage, from Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of its Causes (London: B. Fellowes and J. Booth, 1830), pp. 3-26.7. J. F. W. Herschel, from A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830), pp. 347-61. 8. Mary Somerville, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 2nd edn (London: J. Murray, 1834), pp. 188-238.9. William Whewell, from ‘On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences. By Mrs. Somerville’, The Quarterly Review, 51 (1834), pp. 54-68.Part 3. Institutions10. The Pneumatic Institution: from Thomas Beddoes, ed., Proposal towards the Improvement of Medicine (Bristol, 1794).11. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, from Proposals for Forming by Subscription in the Metropolis of the British Empire a Public Institution (London, 1799), pp. 1-50.12. ‘Proposals for the Establishment of a London Mechanics Institute’, Mechanics’ Magazine, 1 (1823), pp. 99-102.Part 4. Popular Science13. James Graham, from A Lecture on the Generation, Increase, and Improvement of the Human Species (London: printed for the author, 1783), pp. 6-14, 18, 20.14. Benjamin Perkins, from The Influence of Metallic Tractors on the Human Body (London: J. Johnson, 1798), pp. 88-99.15. George Roberts, A Catechism of Electricity; Being a Short Introduction to That Science (London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1822), pp. 31-39.16. David Brewster, from Letters on Natural Magic (London: J. Murray, 1832), pp. 8-36, 56-97.Part 5. Technology17. Threshing Machines, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 339-41.18. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, from An Essay on Chimney Fire-places; with Proposals for Improving Them, to Save Fuel (Dublin: R. E. Mercier, 1796), pp. 1-24.19. Robert Southey, ‘The Black Country’, from Letters from England, 3rd edn, 3 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814), vol. 2, pp. 56-66.20. Thomas Carlyle, ‘The Mechanical Age’ from ‘Signs of the Times’, The Edinburgh Review, 98 (June, 1829), pp. 439-59.21. William Matthews, from An Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress and Present State of Gas-Lighting (London: Rowland Hunter, 1827), pp. 19-52, 235-37.22. Andrew Ure, ‘The Factory System’, from The Philosophy of Manufactures (London: Charles Knight, 1835), pp. 105-23, 160-206.23. Edward Baines, from A History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain (London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson, 1835), pp. 147-244.24. John Herapath, ‘On Railroads’ and ‘Railway Travelling’, The Railway Magazine, 1 (1836), pp. 1-6; 110-13.25. ‘Ships’ Blocks’, from ‘Manufactures’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 295-98.26. Charles Babbage, from ‘On the General Principles Which Regulate the Application of Machinery to Manufacture and the Mechanical Arts’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 18-84.27. ‘Steam Engines’ from ‘Manufactures’, Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, vol. 8 (London: J. J. Griffin, 1849), pp. 184-87.28. Mary Strickland, from A Memoir of the Life, Writings, and Inventions, of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. FRS: Inventor of the Power Loom (London: Saunders and Otley, 1843), pp. 54-67, 330-33.29. Samuel Smiles, ‘Pont-Cysylltau Aqueduct’ from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, new edn (London: J. Murray, 1867), pp. 155-63.30. Samuel Smiles, from Lives of the Engineers: the Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson, new edn (London: J. Murray, 1877), pp. 63-88, 123-45, 207-20.31. Samuel Smiles, from Lives of the Engineers: Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges. John Rennie, new edn (London: J. Murray, 1874), pp. 222-39.32. Samuel Smiles, from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers. Henry Maudslay (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), pp. 245-88. BibliographyIndex