Nineteenth-Century Science Book

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Benjamin Banneker	1
	Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania Almanack, 1793	2
	Banncker's New-Jersey Almanac, 1795	4
2	Xavier Bichat	6
	Physiological Researches on Life and Death	8
3	William Paley	17
	Natural Theology	19
4	Erasmus Darwin	26
	The Temple of Nature	28
5	John Dalton	40
	A New System of Chemical Philosophy	42
6	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	49
	Zoological Philosophy	51
7	Johann Wolfgang Goethe	67
	Theory of Colours	69
8	Alexander von Humboldt	77
	The Island of Cuba	79
9	Charles Babbage	84
	Reflections on the Decline of Science in England	86
10	Charles Lyell	98
	Principles of Geology	100
11	Mary Fairfax Somerville	113
	On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences	114
12	Theodor Schwann	119
	Microscopical Researches	121
13	Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky	137
	Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels	138
14	Robert Chambers	145
	Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation	146
15	George Combe	161
	The Constitution of Man	163
16	William Whewell	172
	The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences	174
17	Herbert Spencer	190
	Social Statics	192
18	Auguste Comte	203
	The Positive Philosophy	205
19	Charles Robert Darwin	215
	Origin of Species	217
	Descent of Man	233
20	Louis Pasteur	245
	"Infusorian Animalcules Living Without Free Oxygen"	247
	"Experiments Related to Spontaneous Generation"	249
21	Michael Faraday	253
	Chemical History of a Candle	254
22	Friedrich Max Muller	264
	The Science of Language	266
23	Hermann von Helmholtz	278
	"On the Conservation of Force"	280
24	James Clerk Maxwell	300
	"A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field"	302
25	Claude Bernard	315
	Introduction a l'etude de la medecine experimentale	317
26	Joeph Lister	337
	"On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery"	338
27	Sir Francis Galton	345
	Hereditary Genius	347
28	John Tyndall	357
	The Belfast Address	359
29	William Thomson, Lord Kelvin	386
	"Review of Evidence Regarding the Physical Condition of the Earth"	388
30	Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev	398
	"The Periodic Law of the Chemical Elements"	399
31	William James	417
	The Principles of Psychology	419
32	Thomas Henry Huxley	428
	Evolution and Ethics	430
33	Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen	445
	"On a New Kind of Rays"	446
34	Marie Sklodowska Curie	452
	"The Discovery of Radium"	453
35	George Washington Carver	461
	Feeding Acorns	463
36	Alfred Russel Wallace	469
	"On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type"	471
	The Wonderful Century	478
	Index of Names	483
	Index of Topics	491