A treasury of scientific prose : a nineteenth-century anthology
Natural theology: Natural theology / The hand as evincing design / Argument in favor of design / Astronomy: The Christian revelation viewed in connexion with the modern astronomy / Outlines of astronomy / 3. The physical sciences: On the constitution of bodies / On some new phenomena of chemical changes produced by electricity / On the chemical history of a candle / On matter, living force and heat / Geology: Illustrations of the Huttonian theory / Methods of theorizing in geology / Biology: Remarks on active molecules / Hypothesis of the development of the vegetable and animal kingdoms / The anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine arts / Science: its organization and support: Objects and plans of the British Association for the Advancement of Science / Of the transformation of the hypotheses in the history of science / The new age: On Faraday's lines of force / On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection
Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980, editor.
Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003, editor.
Mendelsohn, Everett, editor.
William Paley -- Charles Bell -- Charles Babbage -- Thomas Chalmers -- John Herschel -- John Dalton -- Humphry Davy -- Michael Faraday -- James Prescott Joule -- John Playfair -- Charles Lyell -- Robert Brown -- Robert Chambers -- Charles Bell -- William Vernon Harcourt -- William Whewell -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
edited by Howard Mumford Jones and I. Bernard Cohen with the assistance of Everett Mendelsohn.
