Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part I. Volume 3
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Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part I. Volume 3

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eBook - ePub

Literature and Science, 1660-1834, Part I. Volume 3

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040247396
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. The Vulcano’s: or, Burning and Fire-vomiting Mountains ... Collected sor the Most Part out of Kirchers Subterraneous World (1669)
  10. Thomas Hobbes, Di Mirabilibus Pecci, Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire, commonly called ‘The Devil’s Arse of Peak (1678)
  11. William Dampier, A Discourse of Trade-Winds, Breezes, Storms, Tides and Currents (1699)
  12. Daniel Defoe, The Storm (1704)
  13. John Pointer, ‘The Preface’ to A Rational Account of the Weather (1738)
  14. Peter Martel, An Account of the Glacieres or Ice Alps in Savoy (1744)
  15. John Dalton, A Descriptive Poem, addressed to Two Ladies at their Return from Viewing the Mines near Whitehaven (1755)
  16. Richard Pococke, ‘A Farther Account of the Giant’s Causeway’, Philosophical Transactions (1753)
  17. Thomas Amory, The Life Of John Buncle, Esq. (1756, 1765)
  18. John Wesley, Serious Thoughts Occasioned by the late Earthquake at Lisbon (1755)
  19. John Michell, Conjectures concerning the Cause, and Observations upon the Phaenomena, of Earthquakes (1760)
  20. Robert Erskine, A Dissertation on Rivers and Tides (1770)
  21. ‘A Letter from Thomas Ronayne, Esq.; to Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. including an Account of some Observations on Atmospherical Electricity ... Communicated by Mr. William Henley’, Philosophical Transactions (1772)
  22. William Hamilton, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos (1772)
  23. John Whitehurst, An Inquiry into the Original State and Formation of the Earth, deduced from the facts and Laws of Nature (1778)
  24. James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1788)
  25. Richard Kirwan, ‘On the Primeval State of the Globe’, Geological Essays (1799)
  26. Luke Howard, On the Modifications of Clouds, &c. (1804)
  27. William Charles Wells, An Essay on Dew, and Several Appearances Connected with it (1815) 369
  28. William Scoresby, Jr., ‘Description of Ice-Fields, and Remarks on their Formation and Tremendous Concussions’, An Account of the Arctic Regions, and of the Whale-Fishery (1820)
  29. Bibliography
  30. Endnotes