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The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere

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Editors:
  1. Jed Buchwald

    1. Caltech, Pasadena, USA

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  2. Larry Stewart

    1. College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

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  • Contains first rate essays ranging from technical history of science to environmental issues
  • Addresses the spaces in which science has been conducted, from field science to laboratories, exploring issues of public interest and concerns over government influence
  • A wide geographic range, from Europe to the United States and Canada in the transformation of the sciences from the 18th to the 20th centuries

Part of the book series: Archimedes (ARIM, volume 52)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Trevor Levere, Affinities That Matter

    • Ernie Hamm
    Pages 1-7

  3. Elements, Instruments, and Menstruums: Boerhaave’s Imponderable Fire Between Chemical Masterpiece and Physical Axiom

    • Victor D. Boantza
    Pages 9-46

  4. At the Medical Edge or, The Beddoes Effect

    • Larry Stewart
    Pages 47-64

  5. “Men of Letters” and “Men of Press Copies”: The Cultures of James Watt’s Copying Machine

    • David Philip Miller
    Pages 65-79

  6. Poetry, Chemistry, and Wisdom

    • David Knight
    Pages 81-94

  7. Facts or Fantasies in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre?

    • Robert G. W. Anderson
    Pages 95-115

  8. Poetry in War and War in Nature. From Vauban to Naturphilosophie to Clausewitz

    • Janis Langins
    Pages 117-134

  9. John Herschel’s Geology: The Cape of Good Hope in the 1830s

    • Gregory A. Good
    Pages 135-150

  10. More Food for Thought: Mill, Coleridge and the Dismal Science of Economics

    • Margaret Schabas
    Pages 151-162

  11. “These Can Not All Have an Interest for England”: Symmetry, Beauty and the Trouble with Romanticism in Britain

    • Gordon McOuat
    Pages 163-180

  12. Science Born of Poison, Fire and Smoke: Chemical Warfare and the Origins of Big Science

    • Andrew Ede
    Pages 181-200

  13. Politics, Morality, Innovation, and Misrepresentation in Physical Science and Technology

    • Jed Buchwald
    Pages 201-217

  14. Fishing an Extreme Environment: Science, Sovereignty and Hudson Bay

    • Jennifer Hubbard
    Pages 219-254

  15. Collectors, Displays and Replicas in Context: What We Can Learn from Provenance Research in Science Museums

    • David Pantalony
    Pages 255-275

  16. Context, Connections and Culture: The History of Science in Canada as a Field of Study

    • Suzanne Zeller
    Pages 277-299

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 301-310
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About this book

The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science. Expanding on Levere’s many themes and interests, The Romance of Science assembles historians of science -- all influenced by Levere's work -- to explore such matters as the place and space of instruments in science, the role and meaning of science museums, poetry in nature, chemical warfare and warfare in nature, science in Canada and the Arctic, Romanticism, aesthetics and morals in natural philosophy, and the “dismal science” of economics. The Romance of Science explores the interactions between science's romantic, material, institutional and economic engagements with Nature. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Caltech, Pasadena, USA

    Jed Buchwald

  • College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Larry Stewart

About the editors

Jed Buchwald is Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History at Caltech and is finishing a book on the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. His most recent publications are The Zodiac of Paris (Princeton, 2010, co-author Diane Greco Josefowicz), Isaac Newton and the Origin of Civilization (Princeton, 2012, co-author Mordechai Feingold), and “Kirchhoff’s theory for optical diffraction” (Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 70 (2016):464-511, co-author Chen-Pang Yeang).

Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and is currently writing a study of experiment during the late Enlightenment and first industrial revolution.  His most recent work, edited with Erika Dyck, is The Uses of Humans in Experiment. Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century (Brill/Rodopi, 2016).



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor H. Levere

  • Editors: Jed Buchwald, Larry Stewart

  • Series Title: Archimedes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58436-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58435-5Published: 17 July 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86408-2Published: 22 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58436-2Published: 04 July 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1385-0180

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0064

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 310

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Science, Food Science, Popular Science in Humanities / Arts

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