Visions of Science: Books and readers at the dawn of the by James Secord

By James Secord

The early 1830s witnessed a rare transformation in British political, literary, and highbrow lifestyles. New medical disciplines start to take form, whereas new thoughts of the flora and fauna have been hotly debated. James Secord, Director of the Darwin Correspondence undertaking, captures this specified second of switch by way of exploring key books, together with Charles Lyell's rules of Geology, Mary Somerville's Connexion of the actual Sciences, and
Thomas Carlyle's satirical paintings, Sartor Resartus. Set within the context of electoral reform and debates concerning the extension of schooling to satisfy the calls for of the arriving age of empire and undefined, Secord exhibits how the books have been released, disseminated, sought after, attacked and satirized.

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