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005			20240726105320.0
008			130112s2013 enk o 000 0 eng d
040			_aEBLCP _beng _erda _cEBLCP _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dNT
020			_a9781139625548 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk.
050	0	4	_aPR595 _b.P648 2013
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aBrown, Daniel, _d1961- _e1
245	1	0	_aThe poetry of Victorian scientists _bstyle, science and nonsense / _cDaniel Brown.
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (330 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
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505	0	0	_aCover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Professionals and amateurs, work and play: William Rowan Hamilton, Edward Lear and James Clerk Maxwell; Scientists and artists; Natural history and historic nonsense; Holotypes; 'Man's Place in Nature'; Knowledge from nonsense; Counterfactuals; 'The philosophy of toys'; Chapter 2 Edinburgh natural philosophy and Cambridge mathematics; Puns against pedantry; The Cambridge Mathematical Tripos; Punning machines; Analogies; Chapter 3 Knowing more than you think: James Clerk Maxwell on puns, analogies and dreams; The magazine of nature.
505	0	0	_aCauses and forces'The black rocks of Ontology'; 'Empty bubbles, floating upwards through the current of the mind'; Truth and beauty; Crystals; Chapter 4 Red Lions: Edward Forbes and James Clerk Maxwell; 'The Fate of the Do-do'; 'To the Chief Musician upon Nabla'; Metropolitans and North Britons; Glacial relations; Chapter 5 Popular science lectures: 'A Tyndallic Ode'; A science eisteddfod; A song from the Chief Musician: Tait's 1876 lecture on Force; 'Ice reduced to liquid flowers'; Sensation and science; Dark science and light; William Crookes; 'Sounding Flames, andc.'
505	0	0	_aChapter 6 John Tyndall and 'the Scientific Use of the Imagination'Molecular machines and lascivious bodies; Tyndall's 'Scientific Imagination'; The Tyndallic 'fancy scientific'; The Tyndallic sublime; Chapter 7 'Molecular Evolution': Maxwell, Tyndall and Lucretius; 'Fortuitous embraces'; Atoms and associations; 'A swift metamorphosis'; Humean delirium; Chapter 8 James Joseph Sylvester: the romance of space; Projective geometry; 'Transcendental Space'; 'Still-more heaven-reaching theory'; Lost in space; Chapter 9 James Joseph Sylvester: the calculus of forms; Playing 'Syzygies'
505	0	0	_aUt pictura poesis'Studies in Monochrome'; The Hypersyzygetic Canonico-meio-catalecticizant; Airs and graces; Chapter 10 Science on Parnassus; The Unseen Universe; The vortex atom soul; The space of speculation; Novels, hymns and a prayer; Gods and demons; Pleasure and poise; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Works cited; Unpublished materials; Published materials; Index.
520	0		_aThe first study of poetry by Victorian scientists, a unique record of the nature and cultures of Victorian science.
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650		0	_aEnglish poetry _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature and science _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aScientists' writings.
650		4	_aEnglish poetry _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		4	_aLiterature and science _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aScientists' writings.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell